Baptist Student Center
Baptist Student Center is a Baptist church at 909 Normal Ave in Cape Girardeau, MO 63701-4700. It is one of 75 churches in Cape Girardeau, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
The Baptist Student Center is a student ministry dedicated to creating a community founded in Christian hospitality and education; A place where students from all walks of life can encounter the love and passion of Christ in new and radical ways.
The Baptist Student Center was founded in 1939 and has merged the ministries of religious education and student ministry here at Southeast Missouri State University.
Serving since 1939
909 Normal Ave, Cape Girardeau, MO, 63701-4700Service times
- Friday 9am
Phone: (573) 335-6489 · Website: https://baptiststudentcenter.org/
Baptist Student Center is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,663 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Missouri — 71,418 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.
Ministries at Baptist Student Center
- Bible Studies
- Community Groups
- Free Meals
- Chapel Services
- High Level Classes
- Meeting Space for Student Organizations
- Student Organization Space
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The community around Baptist Student Center
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Poverty Rate: 31.5% (23.0–40.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 25.2% (18.8–33.1%)
- Depression: 31.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.8%
- Child Poverty: 24.7% (6.8–42.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
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- SEMO Lighthouse — 0.3 mi away
- Gospel Life Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Justin Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- St James Ame Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- SEMO Lighthouse — 0.3 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Cape Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Bethany Baptist Church Cape Girardeau, Missouri — 1.9 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
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