Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church

Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Canton, NC 28716. It is one of 48 churches in Canton, and one of 13 Baptist congregations in the city.

Being a church that lives out the truth of the Holy Bible, sincere and consistent in prayer, effectively teaching and preaching the timeless Word of God. A community of faith called to render witness of the life, ministry, and mission of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Part of Friendship Association

Canton, NC, 28716

Service times

Sunday School – In Person | 8:45am; Sunday Worship Service – In Person & Virtual | 10am; Wednesday Bible Study – Virtual | 12p & 7pm (as listed)

Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,576 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 71,419 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 First Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church's YouTube channel: "You Know A Lot, But Did You Learn Anything?"John 7:14-24 (2/9/2025) (all videos).

The community around Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church

It takes 3.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

  • Depression: 27.4%
  • Social Isolation: 31.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 18.0% (9.8–26.2%)
  • Food Insecurity: 15.3%
  • Diabetes: 14.0%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (7.3–18.6%)
  • Unemployment: 7.5% (0.0–16.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

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