Morning Star Baptist Church
Morning Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Roanoke, VA 24016. It is one of 351 churches in Roanoke, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
Roanoke, VA, 24016Morning Star Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,727 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,420 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 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 adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 46.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Food Insecurity: 30.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
- Poverty Rate: 27.1% (17.0–37.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.0%
- Diabetes: 16.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Depression: 24.8%
- Child Poverty: 24.4% (9.7–40.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (5.7–18.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Roanoke city is served by 141 churches — about one congregation for every 703 residents.
Churches near Morning Star Baptist Church
- Greater Life Ministeries — 0.1 mi away
- The Way — 0.2 mi away
- West End United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Dwelling Place Roanoke — 0.3 mi away
- West End Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Sinai True Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Elias Roman Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Vine Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Dwelling Place Roanoke — 0.3 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Roanoke Avenue Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Melrose Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Maple Street Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away