Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church
Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2670 East Forest Avenue in Detroit, MI 48207. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit, and one of 272 Baptist congregations in the city.
2670 East Forest Avenue, Detroit, MI, 48207Website: https://www.stlukeparish.com/
Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,819 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Michigan — 71,419 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 Saint Luke Missionary 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. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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: 79.5%
- Obesity: 46.7%
- Food Insecurity: 41.9%
- Poverty Rate: 36.6% (20.9–52.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.5%
- Diabetes: 22.6%
- Unemployment: 21.1% (8.9–33.3%)
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.
Churches near Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church
- New Friendly Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Maclin Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Faithway United Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Sweet Kingdom Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Elizabeth Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Albertus Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Hyacinth Church — 0.4 mi away
- True Vine Temple of Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Friendly Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sweet Kingdom Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Buelah First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away