Rising Star Misionary Baptist Church

Rising Star Misionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2423 West Vliet Street in Milwaukee, WI 53205. It is one of 659 churches in Milwaukee, and one of 57 Baptist congregations in the city.

2423 West Vliet Street, Milwaukee, WI, 53205

Rising Star Misionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 421 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Wisconsin — 71,418 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.

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The community around Rising Star Misionary 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 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,500 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.

  • Child Poverty: 70.5% (51.5–87.7%)
  • Poverty Rate: 52.3% (38.9–65.7%)
  • Food Insecurity: 51.9%
  • Obesity: 50.2%
  • Social Isolation: 41.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.5%
  • Housing Insecurity: 35.2%
  • Transportation Barriers: 26.9%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.5%
  • Diabetes: 21.9%
  • Unemployment: 14.3% (6.4–22.2%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
  • Depression: 24.7%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.7%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

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

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