St John Baptist Church
St John Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 640 Vance Ave in Memphis, TN 38126-2213. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis, and one of 427 Baptist congregations in the city.
TO ADVANCE THE KINGDOM OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD BY LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AS EXPRESSED IN THE CHURCH COVENANT ADOPTED BY ST JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH.
640 Vance Ave, Memphis, TN, 38126-2213Phone: (901) 525-1092 · Website: https://www.stjohnbaptistvance.com/
Shares a ministry location with Saint Johns Church.
St John Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,872 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 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 St John 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live 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: 46.5%
- Poverty Rate: 38.1% (23.4–52.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.6%
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2% (11.8–19.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St John Baptist Church
- Saint Johns Church — 0 mi away
- Miracle Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- River of Life MB Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Love Miracle Center Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Nebo Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Temple of Praise Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- Christ's Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Olive Christian Methodist Episcopal Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
- Canaan Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Miracle Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- River of Life MB Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Nebo Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ's Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Friendship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away