Ruth Baptist Church
Ruth Baptist Church is a Baptist church in MS 39662.
MS, 39662Ruth Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,481 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 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.
Find Ruth Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Ruth Baptist Church
It takes 4.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.6% (7.8–23.4%)
- Obesity: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
- Poverty Rate: 22.0% (9.7–34.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 19.2%
- Diabetes: 14.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Ruth Baptist Church
- Union Primitive Church — 2 mi away
- Topisaw Church — 2.1 mi away
- Spring Beulah Church — 2.6 mi away
- Shady Grove Church — 2.7 mi away in Bogue Chitto, MS
- Topisaw Church — 3.1 mi away in Bogue Chitto, MS
- New Zion Church — 3.5 mi away
- Mars Hill Church — 3.7 mi away in Bogue Chitto, MS
- Felder UMC — 4.2 mi away in Summit, MS
- New Hope Church — 4.3 mi away in Jayess, MS
- Providence Church — 4.7 mi away in Jayess, MS
More Baptist churches nearby
- Wellman Baptist Church — 6 mi away in Bogue Chitto, MS
- Calvary Baptist Church — 6.3 mi away in Pricedale, MS
- Jayess Baptist Church — 6.7 mi away in Jayess, MS
- East Lincoln Baptist Church — 7.4 mi away in Brookhaven, MS
- Victory Baptist Church — 7.5 mi away in Brookhaven, MS