Jerusalem First Missionary Baptist Church

Jerusalem First Missionary Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 1220 N Chester St in Baltimore, MD 21213-3338. It is one of 1,253 churches in Baltimore, and one of 3 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.

We reach out with the heart of ministry to care for our neighbors in the name of Jesus Christ.

Jerusalem First Missionary Baptist Church is a body of believers seeking the spiritual growth and maturity of every believer through disciplining, teaching, preaching and exhorting from the word of God, as well as creating unique opportunities for service to the Kingdom of God, and it's all because of Calvary.

1220 N Chester St, Baltimore, MD, 21213-3338

Service times

  • Sunday 10am

Phone: (410) 812-2287 · Website: https://www.jerusalemfirstmissionary.org/

Jerusalem First Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 993 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Maryland — 71,417 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 Jerusalem First Missionary Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Social Isolation: 43.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 35.7%
  • Housing Insecurity: 30.3%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.4%
  • Obesity: 43.9%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 29.0% (13.6–44.4%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
  • Transportation Barriers: 17.8%
  • Diabetes: 15.7%
  • Depression: 23.0%
  • Unemployment: 6.5% (0.3–14.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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