Morning Star Baptist Church
Morning Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1225 East 20th Street in Erie, PA 16503. It is one of 205 churches in Erie, and one of 28 Baptist congregations in the city.
1225 East 20th Street, Erie, PA, 16503Morning Star Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,478 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 71,418 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. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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.
- Child Poverty: 55.3% (37.3–73.2%)
- Obesity: 45.6%
- Poverty Rate: 39.2% (27.2–51.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.6%
- Unemployment: 15.9% (4.1–27.8%)
- Diabetes: 16.5%
- Depression: 24.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Erie city is served by 103 churches — about one congregation for every 920 residents.
Churches near Morning Star Baptist Church
- First Born Apostolic Church — 0 mi away
- San Juan United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Henderson United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Stephens Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Gods Grace Apostolic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Victory Christian Center of Erie, PA — 0.5 mi away
- Holy Rosary Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Zion Apostolic Faith Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Ebal Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Wayne Park Baptist Temple Church — 1 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away