Rising Sun Missionary Baptist Church
Rising Sun Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 5255 Tulane Road, Memphis, TN, 38109-7509 in Memphis, TN 38109. It is one of 1,547 churches in Memphis, and one of 382 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission at Rising Sun Outreach Ministries is to bring people to Jesus and membership in His family, to develop them to Christ-like maturity, to equip them for their ministry in the church and life mission in the world, in order to magnify God's name.
5255 Tulane Road, Memphis, TN, 38109-7509, Memphis, TN, 38109Service times
- Sunday 11am · Morning WorshipService Time-
Phone: (901) 398-8397 · Website: http://liveatthesun.org/
Rising Sun Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,860 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 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.
Ministries at Rising Sun Missionary Baptist Church
- Outreach
- Discipleship
- Music
- Prayer
- Hospitality
- Greeters & Ushers
- Pastor Support
- Membership Care
- Membership Engagement
- Youth & Young Adults
- Men
- Women
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The community around Rising Sun Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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 more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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: 51.2%
- Child Poverty: 43.7% (24.1–63.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.5%
- Poverty Rate: 32.2% (22.4–42.0%)
- Diabetes: 26.9%
- Unemployment: 15.8% (6.3–25.2%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.9% (10.6–21.2%)
- Depression: 23.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Rising Sun Missionary Baptist Church
- New Life Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Greater St Matthews Baptist — 0.7 mi away
- Greater Lakeview Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Middle Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mount Joyner Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Faith Temple Holiness Church — 1 mi away
- Faith Temple Ministries — 1 mi away
- Holmes Road Church of Christ — 1.1 mi away
- Christian Methodist Episcopal Temple — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Lakeview Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Middle Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mount Joyner Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- New Nonconnah Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Westhaven Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away