Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church
Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Akron, OH 44320. It is one of 384 churches in Akron, and one of 62 Baptist congregations in the city.
Akron, OH, 44320Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,336 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 71,352 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 Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 51.9%
- Food Insecurity: 38.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.0%
- Poverty Rate: 31.5% (19.6–43.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.4%
- Diabetes: 24.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.4%
- Social Isolation: 39.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.7%
- Depression: 24.3%
- Unemployment: 7.9% (3.1–12.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church
- Wooster Avenue Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- New Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Ashworth Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- House of the Lord — 0.3 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Philips Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bread of Life Church — 0.6 mi away
- Jubilee Temple Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Temple Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away