African Baptist Church
African Baptist Church is a church at 550 Garfield Ave in Kansas City, MO 64124-1514. It is one of 783 churches in Kansas City.
550 Garfield Ave, Kansas City, MO, 64124-1514Phone: +18163720898 · Website: http://africanbckc.org/
African 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 African Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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: 46.0%
- Food Insecurity: 43.0%
- Poverty Rate: 42.8% (23.9–61.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.3%
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.0% (10.8–23.2%)
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Unemployment: 11.9% (6.0–18.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.6%
- Depression: 26.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
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