Mount Gilead Baptist Church
Mount Gilead Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Jackson, AL 36545. It is one of 66 churches in Jackson, and one of 9 Baptist congregations in the city.
Jackson, AL, 36545Service times
- Sunday 11am · Worship
Mount Gilead Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,553 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 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.
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The community around Mount Gilead Baptist Church
It takes 4.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 45.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
- Food Insecurity: 28.5%
- Diabetes: 19.5%
- Unemployment: 15.3% (7.4–23.1%)
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Poverty Rate: 24.4% (14.9–33.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Gilead Baptist Church
- Hopewell Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Luke Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pilgrims Rest Church — 0.6 mi away
- Good Hope Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Grove Hill, AL
- Greater Pilgrim Rest Church — 2.3 mi away
- Evergreen Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Little Burrough Church — 3.7 mi away
- Saint Peters Church — 3.9 mi away in Grove Hill, AL
- Mount Sinai Number 1 Church — 4.1 mi away
- Jones Chapel Methodist Protestant Church — 4.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Good Hope Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Grove Hill, AL
- Evergreen Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away in Grove Hill, AL
- Rocky Mountain Church — 5.9 mi away
- Jackson Street Baptist Church — 6 mi away