Shining Star Freewill Baptist
Shining Star Freewill Baptist is a Baptist church at 5737 Martin Luther King Jr Hwy in Seat Pleasant, MD 20743-2156. It is one of 11 churches in Seat Pleasant, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to proclaim and present the Gospel of Jesus Christ in such a way that sinners turn into converts, converts turn into disciples and disciples turn into mature and fruitful leaders who will in turn go into the world and reach others for Christ.
5737 Martin Luther King Jr Hwy, Seat Pleasant, MD, 20743-2156Service times
- Sunday 11am
Phone: (301) 751-6044 · Website: https://www.shiningstarfreewillbc.org/
Shining Star Freewill Baptist is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 993 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Maryland — 71,420 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 Shining Star Freewill Baptist
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have, and about 1 in 5 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 32.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.0%
- Unemployment: 20.6% (6.0–35.2%)
- Obesity: 43.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.4%
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Poverty Rate: 18.8% (10.4–27.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
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- Faith Temple No. 2 Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Capitol Heights, MD
- The Temple Of Praise And Worship — 0.3 mi away in Washington, DC
- Perfection of the Saints — 0.3 mi away in Washington, DC
- Addison Chapel — 0.3 mi away in Capitol Heights, MD
- Higher Praise Outreach — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Victory Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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- New Abundant Life Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in Fairmount Heights, MD
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