Washington Avenue Baptist Church
Washington Avenue Baptist Church is a church at 1722 North National Avenue in Springfield, MO 65803. It is one of 298 churches in Springfield.
Changing lives, while transforming minds.
1722 North National Avenue, Springfield, MO, 65803Phone: 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.
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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