Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church

Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 456 Arthur Avenue in Pontiac, MI 48341. It is one of 154 churches in Pontiac, and one of 28 Baptist congregations in the city.

456 Arthur Avenue, Pontiac, MI, 48341

Service times

  • Wednesday 12pm–12:30pm
  • Sunday 9am · SchooL new memberorientation CALL TO WORSHIP
  • Sunday 10:30am · SchooL new memberorientation CALL TO WORSHIP

Mt. Zion 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 Mt. Zion 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up 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.

  • Obesity: 46.2%
  • Child Poverty: 44.7% (25.1–64.3%)
  • Food Insecurity: 35.3%
  • Housing Insecurity: 26.0%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.4%
  • Diabetes: 19.0%
  • Social Isolation: 37.0%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 28.6% (18.7–38.5%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
  • Unemployment: 11.7% (6.0–17.5%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Pontiac city is served by 134 churches — about one congregation for every 462 residents.

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