Saint John Baptist Church
Saint John Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 1656 Pendleton Street in Memphis, TN 38114. It is one of 1,547 churches in Memphis, and one of 18 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
From 1924 to today, our goal as Christian believers has been “Seeking Sinners, Teaching the Saved, & Nurturing the Saints.”
St. John MBC is a beacon of hope in the Orange Mound community of Memphis, Tennessee.
1656 Pendleton Street, Memphis, TN, 38114Service times
- Sunday 9:45am
Phone: (800) 793-1391 · Website: https://stjohnmbc-orangemound.org/
Saint John 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.
Find Saint John Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Saint John Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of adults live with diabetes. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 47.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.3%
- Diabetes: 23.8%
- Unemployment: 17.6% (5.3–29.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 23.0% (12.2–33.9%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.2% (10.0–26.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Saint John Baptist Church
- Saint John Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Moriah East Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Barron Heights Church — 0.3 mi away
- Believers in Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Monument of Love Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lamar Heights Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Breath of Life Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- True Vine Community Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Bethany Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- King Of Kings Healing and Deliverance Outreach International Ministry — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Moriah East Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Believers in Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Monument of Love Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lamar Heights Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- True Liberty Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away