First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in MS 38944.

MS, 38944

First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.

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The community around First Baptist Church

It takes 8.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly half 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.

  • Child Poverty: 81.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 48.2%
  • Obesity: 47.0%
  • Food Insecurity: 43.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.3%
  • Housing Insecurity: 29.4%
  • Diabetes: 25.1%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.1%
  • Transportation Barriers: 22.1%
  • Unemployment: 17.8% (7.5–28.8%)
  • Social Isolation: 38.5%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.6% (8.3–27.0%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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