Macedonia Baptist Church
Macedonia Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 940 McKinley Avenue in Akron, OH 44306. It is one of 416 churches in Akron, and one of 53 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our church mission is capsulized in our purpose statement: “We purpose by the aid of the Holy Spirit to win the lost to Christ, to disciple those we win by the word of God, then send them out so that they may win others.”
940 McKinley Avenue, Akron, OH, 44306Macedonia Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Macedonia Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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.
- Obesity: 49.7%
- Child Poverty: 48.1% (29.2–67.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 37.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.5%
- Poverty Rate: 33.5% (22.0–45.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.1%
- Diabetes: 21.6%
- Unemployment: 13.8% (5.1–22.5%)
- Social Isolation: 39.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.8%
- Depression: 27.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near Macedonia Baptist Church
- Faith Temple Church of the Living God — 0.2 mi away
- Living Stone Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Mission Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Arlington Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Hope Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Bethel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- South Arlington United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hill's Temple — 0.5 mi away