Morning Star Baptist Church
Morning Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 327 East 23rd Street in Erie, PA 16503. It is one of 205 churches in Erie, and one of 25 Baptist congregations in the city.
327 East 23rd Street, Erie, PA, 16503Website: https://www.morningstarbaptistchurcheriepa.com/
Morning Star Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,509 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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.
Find Morning Star Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Morning Star Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 79.0%
- Obesity: 46.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.6%
- Unemployment: 15.3% (2.7–27.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 29.7% (17.6–41.9%)
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Depression: 23.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 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
- Bethel Fellowship Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Zion Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Calvary Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- House Of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- True Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Fuente De Salvacion — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Open Door Full Gospel Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Trinity Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Trinity Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Calvary Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- House Of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away