Bethany Missionary Baptist Church
Bethany Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1226 Park Avenue in Kansas City, MO 64127. It is one of 783 churches in Kansas City, and one of 150 Baptist congregations in the city.
1226 Park Avenue, Kansas City, MO, 64127Shares a ministry location with Bethaney Baptist Church.
Bethany Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,663 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Missouri — 71,417 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 Bethany Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 2,200 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: 75.5%
- Obesity: 49.1%
- Food Insecurity: 47.6%
- Poverty Rate: 44.8% (29.8–59.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.5%
- Diabetes: 20.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.5% (11.3–27.6%)
- Unemployment: 8.7% (3.6–15.1%)
- Depression: 25.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Kansas City city is served by 493 churches — about one congregation for every 1,000 residents.
Churches near Bethany Missionary Baptist Church
- Bethaney Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Metropolitan Spiritual Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Freedom Fire Church — 0.1 mi away
- True Love Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mark's Union Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Holy Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- House of Refuge Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Aloysius Catholic Church (Historical) — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Martin Temple Church of God — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- True Love Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Stephen Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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