Mount Vernon Baptist Church
Mount Vernon Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1007 South Roxboro Street in Durham, NC 27707. It is one of 446 churches in Durham, and one of 55 Baptist congregations in the city.
1007 South Roxboro Street, Durham, NC, 27707Website: http://www.mvbcdurham.org/
Mount Vernon Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,587 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 71,872 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 Mount Vernon Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 27.4%
- Obesity: 43.5%
- Social Isolation: 35.8%
- Poverty Rate: 24.4% (14.0–34.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.3% (9.2–23.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
- Depression: 24.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.1%
- Diabetes: 13.8%
- Unemployment: 8.0% (2.9–13.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Durham city is served by 183 churches — about one congregation for every 1,296 residents.
Churches near Mount Vernon Baptist Church
- Gethsemane Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Happy Rock Unity Holy Church — 0.1 mi away
- Word of Life Worship Center NC — 0.1 mi away
- Fisher Memorial United Holy Church of America — 0.2 mi away
- Glad Tidings Worship Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Central Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Mark A.M.E. Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rebuild Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Kyles Temple AME Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- LMBC — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Gethsemane Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Rebuild Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- First Chronicles Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Morehead Avenue Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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