South Side Baptist Church
South Side Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 465 South Grant Avenue in Springfield, MO 65806. It is one of 336 churches in Springfield, and one of 44 Baptist congregations in the city.
A Church on "MISSION" to Point People to Jesus Christ!
465 South Grant Avenue, Springfield, MO, 65806South Side 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 — 71,418 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 South Side 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. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter 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.
- Poverty Rate: 42.2% (31.1–53.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 28.7%
- Obesity: 43.0%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.4%
- Depression: 29.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.1% (12.1–26.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (2.7–14.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6% (10.4–17.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Springfield city is served by 134 churches — about one congregation for every 1,238 residents.
Churches near South Side Baptist Church
- Grace Assembly Of God — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Springfield — 0.3 mi away
- South Street Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Gathering — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Agnes Cathedral — 0.5 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Downtown Church — 0.6 mi away
- South Campbell Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Temple — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Springfield — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Springfield — 0.3 mi away
- South Campbell Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Grant Avenue Free Will Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- College Street Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
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