Morning Star Baptist Church
Morning Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Akron, OH 44305. It is one of 431 churches in Akron, and one of 53 Baptist congregations in the city.
Akron, OH, 44305Service times
- Wednesday 6:30pm
Phone: (330) 733-1022 · Website: http://www.morningstarakron.org/
Morning Star Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,344 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 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 Morning Star Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 46.0%
- Food Insecurity: 29.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Depression: 29.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.4%
- Poverty Rate: 23.3% (12.9–33.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.8%
- Diabetes: 16.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 6.7% (0.2–13.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near Morning Star Baptist Church
- Ebenezer Apostolic Assembly Church — 0.1 mi away
- Phillips Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Phillip's Chapel CME Church — 0.2 mi away
- Goodyear Heights Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Goodyear Heights Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Goodyear Heights United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Wingfoot Church — 0.5 mi away
- Fulton Street Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Goodyear Heights Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mercy Temple Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Goodyear Heights Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Karen Akron Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- McNaughton Street Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Greater Faith Missionary Baptist — 1 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away