Martin Street Baptist Church

Martin Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Raleigh, NC 27601. It is one of 632 churches in Raleigh, and one of 72 Baptist congregations in the city.

Raleigh, NC, 27601

Website: http://martinstreetbaptist.org/

Martin Street 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 Martin Street Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 38.6% (20.7–57.5%)
  • Social Isolation: 36.6%
  • Food Insecurity: 24.5%
  • Unemployment: 8.0% (3.3–12.7%)
  • Obesity: 38.2%
  • Depression: 25.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 21.9% (15.0–28.8%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.7%
  • Diabetes: 14.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (5.9–16.6%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Raleigh city is served by 244 churches — about one congregation for every 1,663 residents.

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