Mount Zion Baptist Church
Mount Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Benton Harbor, MI 49022. It is one of 72 churches in Benton Harbor, and one of 16 Baptist congregations in the city.
Benton Harbor, MI, 49022Mount Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,851 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Michigan — 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 Mount Zion Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 60.7%
- Food Insecurity: 56.9%
- Obesity: 56.7%
- Poverty Rate: 46.7% (33.6–59.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 41.3%
- Social Isolation: 41.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 37.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 30.3%
- Diabetes: 24.1%
- Unemployment: 17.8% (4.1–31.5%)
- Depression: 26.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Benton Harbor city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 371 residents.
Churches near Mount Zion Baptist Church
- Greater Community Christian Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- Community Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Colored Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Thomas Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Benton Heights, MI
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.3 mi away in Benton Heights, MI
- Hopewell Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Reed Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Church — 0.4 mi away
- Full Gospel Tabernacle Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Jude Spiritual Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Thomas Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Benton Heights, MI
- Hopewell Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Golden Light Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Beautiful Gate Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Benton Heights, MI
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