Mercy Seat Missionary Baptist Church
Mercy Seat Missionary Baptist Church is a church in WV 24831.
WV, 24831Mercy Seat Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 774 congregations of the Baptist family gather across West Virginia — 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 Mercy Seat Missionary Baptist Church
It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 48.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.0%
- Poverty Rate: 32.4% (17.7–47.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 30.7%
- Diabetes: 22.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.2%
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Depression: 28.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.8%
- Unemployment: 9.9% (0.0–20.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
- Child Poverty: 22.0% (2.1–41.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mercy Seat Missionary Baptist Church
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Old Fashion Full Gospel Church — 0.8 mi away in Northfork, WV
- Northfork Presbyterian Church — 1 mi away in Northfork, WV
- New Vision U.H. Church — 1 mi away in Northfork, WV
- Northfork Baptist Church — 1 mi away in Northfork, WV
- Mount Ebenezer Church — 1 mi away in Northfork, WV
- Northfork United Methodist Church — 1 mi away in Northfork, WV
- Little Rock Church — 1.1 mi away in Northfork, WV
- Crozer Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Saint Mary’s Greek Catholic Church — 1.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Crozer Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Keystone Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Keystone, WV
- Mount Chapel Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Keystone, WV
- Burke Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Northfork, WV