Jerusalem Baptist Church

Jerusalem Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2505 West Cornell Street in Milwaukee, WI 53209-6216. It is one of 659 churches in Milwaukee, and one of 57 Baptist congregations in the city.

2505 West Cornell Street, Milwaukee, WI, 53209-6216

Website: http://newjerusalemmb.org/index.html

Jerusalem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 421 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Wisconsin — 71,417 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 Jerusalem Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 2,200 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: 50.7%
  • Social Isolation: 40.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 40.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.9%
  • Housing Insecurity: 29.8%
  • Diabetes: 21.7%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.3%
  • Unemployment: 13.1% (3.6–22.8%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 22.5% (11.2–33.8%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 20.0%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%

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

Milwaukee city is served by 302 churches — about one congregation for every 1,887 residents.

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