Mother Zion Baptist Church
Mother Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 422 East Milam Street in Wharton, TX 77488. It is one of 44 churches in Wharton, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
422 East Milam Street, Wharton, TX, 77488Mother Zion 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 Mother Zion Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, 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 nearly a quarter of the people here 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: 30.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 29.7% (19.4–39.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.5%
- Obesity: 43.0%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Poverty Rate: 19.8% (10.5–29.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mother Zion Baptist Church
- St. Paul Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Caney Creek Church — 0.3 mi away
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Hope Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Abell Street Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Wharton — 0.5 mi away
- Templo Bethel del Cladic — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Hope Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Wharton — 0.5 mi away
- College Heights Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- St James Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Grace Community Fellowship — 1.6 mi away