Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church
Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 908 North Ragsdale Street in Jacksonville, TX 75766. It is one of 76 churches in Jacksonville, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
908 North Ragsdale Street, Jacksonville, TX, 75766Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,496 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 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.
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The community around Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. About a third of the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is two thousand 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 30.3% (20.7–39.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 28.5%
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Unemployment: 12.6% (4.7–20.5%)
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Child Poverty: 34.7% (16.9–52.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 28.7% (16.0–41.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Jacksonville city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 264 residents.
Churches near Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church
- New Community United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Whites Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Greater New Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bolton Street Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Carter Chapel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
- Templo Senda De Luz — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater New Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Carter Chapel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sweet Union Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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