Southside First Baptist Church
Southside First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2015 East 50th Street in Kansas City, MO 64130. It is one of 783 churches in Kansas City, and one of 150 Baptist congregations in the city.
2015 East 50th Street, Kansas City, MO, 64130Southside First 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.
Find Southside First Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Southside First 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. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 30.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.9%
- Obesity: 43.1%
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Poverty Rate: 29.4% (19.0–39.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.3%
- Diabetes: 15.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.4% (8.4–22.3%)
- Unemployment: 8.3% (1.9–14.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
- Depression: 24.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Kansas City city is served by 493 churches — about one congregation for every 1,000 residents.
Churches near Southside First Baptist Church
- Gospel Tithing Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Beacon Light Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Love Fellowship Church — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Grove Missionary Baptist — 0.5 mi away
- Mount of Transfiguration Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Spruce St. Matthew Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Mount Lebanon Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Willis Chapel AME Church — 0.7 mi away
- Sunlight Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Faith Is Deliverance Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Gospel Tithing Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount of Transfiguration Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Spruce St. Matthew Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Mount Lebanon Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Sunlight Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
See all churches in Kansas City, MO · All churches in Missouri