Washington Avenue Baptist Church
Washington Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1722 North National Avenue in Springfield, MO 65803. It is one of 336 churches in Springfield, and one of 44 Baptist congregations in the city.
Changing lives, while transforming minds.
1722 North National Avenue, Springfield, MO, 65803Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am
Phone: (417) 866-2750 · Website: https://www.historicwashingtonave.com/
Washington 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 — 71,418 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 Washington Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.0% (15.7–28.4%)
- Obesity: 40.1%
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Depression: 28.5%
- Poverty Rate: 26.4% (17.1–35.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 23.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.7%
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 Washington Avenue Baptist Church
- Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- 7 Brew Coffee — 0.4 mi away
- Pathways United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hope of the Gospel Church — 0.5 mi away
- DCS Student Council — 0.5 mi away
- Dayspring Church — 0.5 mi away
- Slavic Evangelical Church — 0.5 mi away
- Weller Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Central Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Freedom Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Great Light Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- West Republic Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Hamlin Memorial Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
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