Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church
Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church is a church at 5300 Helen Ave in Jennings, MO 63136-3413. It is one of 20 churches in Jennings.
5300 Helen Ave, Jennings, MO, 63136-3413Phone: +13143895005 · Website: https://www.mmbcoj.org/
Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,662 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Missouri — 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 Metropolitan 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. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,300 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: 67.3% (49.4–85.2%)
- Obesity: 49.6%
- Food Insecurity: 46.2%
- Social Isolation: 41.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 32.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.2%
- Diabetes: 24.2%
- Unemployment: 13.8% (4.8–22.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.5%
- Poverty Rate: 28.4% (16.0–40.7%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.8% (10.4–23.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church
- Jennings Church — 0.2 mi away
- Monument of Faith Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Ecclesia of Christ Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Good Hope Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Pine Lawn, MO
- Faith and Des Peres Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Empowerment Center — 0.5 mi away in St Louis, MO
- Wesley Church — 0.5 mi away in Saint Louis, MO
- New Beginnings Christian Church - St. Louis — 0.6 mi away in St Louis, MO
- Greater Fellowship Church — 0.6 mi away in Saint Louis, MO
- Rose Hill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Saint Louis, MO
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Good Hope Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Pine Lawn, MO
- Rose Hill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Saint Louis, MO
- Greater Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in Saint Louis, MO
- Calvary West Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Saint Louis, MO