Morning Star Baptist Church
Morning Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 504 North Longview Street in Kilgore, TX 75662. It is one of 74 churches in Kilgore, and one of 13 Baptist congregations in the city.
504 North Longview Street, Kilgore, TX, 75662Morning Star 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 Morning Star Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 the people here live without health insurance. Nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 25.6% (18.6–32.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
- Poverty Rate: 27.3% (17.6–37.0%)
- Obesity: 38.7%
- Child Poverty: 25.9% (15.4–36.8%)
- Depression: 25.0%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (1.1–12.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Kilgore city is served by 24 churches — about one congregation for every 164 residents.
Churches near Morning Star Baptist Church
- Grace Fellowship of Kilgore — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. Luke's United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Eastview Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Cornerstone — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, Inc. of Kilgore — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Eastview Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kilgore Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Kilgore Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away