Lake Avenue Baptist Church

Lake Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 820 Alabama Street in Saint Joseph, MO 64504. It is one of 57 churches in Saint Joseph, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.

820 Alabama Street, Saint Joseph, MO, 64504

Lake Avenue 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 — 71,419 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 Lake Avenue Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, 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 about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

  • Obesity: 47.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.4%
  • Social Isolation: 32.1%
  • Depression: 27.1%
  • Food Insecurity: 24.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 23.6% (14.5–32.7%)
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.0% (9.1–23.0%)
  • Diabetes: 15.6%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.2%
  • Unemployment: 9.9% (1.0–19.0%)
  • Child Poverty: 28.2% (11.1–45.2%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.3%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
  • Transportation Barriers: 13.2%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

St. Joseph city is served by 53 churches — about one congregation for every 1,304 residents.

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