Greater Morning Star Baptist Church
Greater Morning Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1002 Mavis Dr in Baton Rouge, LA 70810-0707. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 41 Baptist congregations in the city.
1002 Mavis Dr, Baton Rouge, LA, 70810-0707Service times
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2021 AT 11:00 A.M (as listed)
Phone: +12257661510 · Website: https://www.gmsbc.net/
Greater Morning Star Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,388 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 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.
Find Greater Morning Star Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
Upcoming events at Greater Morning Star Baptist Church
- Sat, Aug 8 · 9 AM: Sunday School Ministry Meeting
- Sat, Aug 8 · 10 AM: Seasoned Saints Ministry Meeting
- Sat, Aug 8 · 10 AM: Young Women's Ministry Meeting — via Zoom
- Sun, Aug 9 · All day: Observance of The Lord's Supper — via Facebook Live at Greater Morning Star BC
From Greater Morning Star Baptist Church's public calendar (https://www.gmsbc.net/). Times are the church's local time.
The community around Greater Morning Star Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 36.0%
- Poverty Rate: 34.2% (20.9–47.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 27.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.4%
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Social Isolation: 38.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Depression: 28.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.0%
- Unemployment: 8.0% (2.1–13.9%)
- Child Poverty: 26.4% (7.1–46.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
- Diabetes: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater Morning Star Baptist Church
- Church of Ephesus — 0.3 mi away
- RCCG Trumpeters Of God — 0.3 mi away
- El Aposento Alto — 0.4 mi away
- Aposento Alto Baton Rouge — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Sixty Aid Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Highland Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Jude Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- St. John's United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Grace Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Sixty Aid Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Laurel Lea Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- New Life Church — 1.1 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
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