University Heights Baptist Church
University Heights Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1010 South National Avenue in Springfield, MO 65804. It is one of 336 churches in Springfield, and one of 44 Baptist congregations in the city.
If you’ve been wondering if there’s a place where people are more important than dogma, where people are warm and welcoming, thoughtful, and gentle, and where grace is a verb, University Heights Baptist Church might just be the place for you. We are a church that believes worship doesn’t end with a benediction, but spills out into classrooms, neighborhoods, shelters, hospital rooms, dinner tables, and streets, right here in Springfield.UHBC is a faith community that is going to encourage deep thinking, generous grace and compassion, and encourage everyone, men and women, to lead and to serve.T
1010 South National Avenue, Springfield, MO, 65804Service times
- Sunday 9:15am · Morning LIfe groups -
Phone: (417) 862-0789 · Website: http://www.uhbc.org/
University Heights 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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Latest from University Heights Baptist Church's YouTube channel: Learning to Fly | Philippians 2:13 | Joe Miller (all videos).
The community around University Heights 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. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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: 48.0%
- Poverty Rate: 41.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.4% (14.0–26.8%)
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Depression: 29.9%
- Food Insecurity: 23.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%
- Unemployment: 7.3% (3.4–11.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Springfield city is served by 134 churches — about one congregation for every 1,238 residents.
Churches near University Heights Baptist Church
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — 0.6 mi away
- First & Calvary Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- National Avenue Christian Church — 0.7 mi away in SpringField, MO
- Christian Campus House — 0.7 mi away
- Field Church — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
- New Testament Christian Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mercy Hospital Springfield Chapel — 0.9 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Glenstone Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- South Campbell Avenue Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Springfield — 1.1 mi away
- Springfield Bible Church — 1.2 mi away
- Grant Avenue Free Will Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
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