Martin Luther King Baptist Church
Martin Luther King Baptist Church is a church at 1243 S 18th St in Harrisburg, PA 17104-2811. It is one of 174 churches in Harrisburg.
1243 S 18th St, Harrisburg, PA, 17104-2811Phone: (717) 525-7584
Shares a ministry location with Trinity Church.
Martin Luther King Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,470 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 71,350 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 Martin Luther King 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 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: 55.6% (37.5–74.6%)
- Obesity: 45.4%
- Poverty Rate: 42.7% (30.8–54.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.3%
- Unemployment: 22.1% (8.6–35.6%)
- Diabetes: 19.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.9%
- Depression: 24.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
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- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- City Of Refuge Evangelism (C.O.R.E.) — 0.4 mi away
- The Church of Pentecost USA — 0.6 mi away
- Iglesia Internacional Aposento Alto Harrisburg — 0.7 mi away
- Harrisburg BIC Church — 0.7 mi away
- The First Baptist Church of Steelton — 0.8 mi away
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