Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church
Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 2075 Kentucky St in Gary, IN 46407-2819. It is one of 275 churches in Gary, and one of 4 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
2075 Kentucky St, Gary, IN, 46407-2819Service times
- Wednesday 10am–2pm · & -
Phone: +12198836149 · Website: http://morningstarbcofchicago.org/MS_history.html
Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,291 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Indiana — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 71.1% (52.6–89.6%)
- Obesity: 57.0%
- Food Insecurity: 54.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.4%
- Poverty Rate: 39.3% (25.9–52.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 36.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 35.7%
- Diabetes: 28.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.8%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Unemployment: 11.8% (0.0–24.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church
- Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Allen Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Williams Chapel Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Truth Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Mariah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Nazareth Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Newhope Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Mount Mariah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Nazareth Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away