Temple Baptist Church
Temple Baptist Church is a church at 845 South Fort Avenue in Springfield, MO 65806. It is one of 336 churches in Springfield.
845 South Fort Avenue, Springfield, MO, 65806Phone: (417) 866-5045
Shares a ministry location with Calvary Springfield.
Temple 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 Temple Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 41.0%
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Depression: 27.7%
- Poverty Rate: 26.6% (16.9–36.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.2%
- Food Insecurity: 22.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (4.3–13.1%)
- Child Poverty: 22.5% (4.8–40.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.7% (9.1–18.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), 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 Temple Baptist Church
- Calvary Springfield — 0 mi away
- Life360 All Nations Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grant Avenue Free Will Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- South Side Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Calvary Temple — 0.7 mi away
- South Campbell Avenue Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Grace Assembly Of God — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Springfield — 0.9 mi away
- Walnut Street Christian Church — 1 mi away
- College Street Baptist Church — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Grant Avenue Free Will Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- South Side Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- South Campbell Avenue Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Springfield — 0.9 mi away
- College Street Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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