Damascus Baptist Church
Damascus Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Hazlehurst, MS 39083. It is one of 56 churches in Hazlehurst, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
Hazlehurst, MS, 39083Website: http://www.greaterdamascus.org
Damascus Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Damascus Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 46.5%
- Poverty Rate: 38.8%
- Food Insecurity: 34.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.3%
- Diabetes: 21.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.0%
- Social Isolation: 38.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.0%
- Unemployment: 11.2% (1.9–20.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.7% (7.7–19.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Damascus Baptist Church
- Damascus Church of Christ Holiness — 0.7 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Martin of Tours Catholic Church — 1.3 mi away
- Hazlehurst United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 1.4 mi away
- Walk of Faith Ministry — 1.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Temple Holiness Church — 1.5 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- New Life Cathedral of Worship — 1.8 mi away