St Elmo Baptist Church
St Elmo Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 1601 SW Monroe Ave in Lawton, OK 73501-7121. It is one of 210 churches in Lawton, and one of 2 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
Glorify God and love our neighbor by submitting ourselves to the teachings of Christ, proclaiming the gospel to the lost and showing support and encouragement to the faith.
St. Elmo Baptist Church began its spiritual roots on the corner of 1601 Monroe in the spring of 1921 with Rev. Houston as the Pastor.
Serving since 1601
1601 SW Monroe Ave, Lawton, OK, 73501-7121Service times
- Sunday 10:30am · School Worship Facebook Live
- Sunday 11:30am · School Worship Facebook Live
- Sunday 12pm · School Worship Facebook Live
Phone: (580) 355-6352 · Website: https://stelmobc.org/
St Elmo Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,598 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Oklahoma — 71,419 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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Latest from St Elmo Missionary Baptist Church's YouTube channel: 102nd Church Anniversary (all videos).
The community around St Elmo Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than half of adults live with obesity, and more than half of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 88.0%
- Obesity: 57.8%
- Poverty Rate: 57.7%
- Food Insecurity: 51.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.6%
- Diabetes: 26.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.8%
- Unemployment: 24.1% (15.2–32.9%)
- Social Isolation: 35.0%
- Depression: 28.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (6.6–19.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Elmo Baptist Church
- Union Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Hope Church of God-Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Calvery Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Galilee Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Temple Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.2 mi away
- St John's Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Outreach Ministries Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Calvery Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Galilee Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St John's Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away