Mount Zion First Baptist Church

Mount Zion First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 333 Martin Luther King Drive in San Antonio, TX 78203. It is one of 1,662 churches in San Antonio, and one of 235 Baptist congregations in the city.

Mount Zion First Baptist Church was founded in 1871. It is considered as one of the most prominent and charismatic churches in San Antonio.

Serving since 1871

333 Martin Luther King Drive, San Antonio, TX, 78203

Service times

  • Sunday 9am · School

Phone: (210) 533-7131 · Website: https://www.mountzionfbc.org

Mount Zion First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 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.

Ministries at Mount Zion First Baptist Church

  • Food Bank
  • Youth Ministries

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The community around Mount Zion First Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is two thousand 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.

  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 30.4%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.1% (13.3–28.9%)
  • Diabetes: 18.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 26.0% (13.4–38.6%)
  • Obesity: 39.1%
  • Child Poverty: 27.9% (10.4–46.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

San Antonio city is served by 829 churches — about one congregation for every 1,707 residents.

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