Morning Star Baptist Church
Morning Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lucedale, MS 39452. It is one of 42 churches in Lucedale, and one of 9 Baptist congregations in the city.
Lucedale, MS, 39452Morning Star Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Morning Star Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 53.6% (38.3–68.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 32.1% (21.8–42.3%)
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
- Food Insecurity: 24.4%
- Diabetes: 16.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lucedale city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 229 residents.
Churches near Morning Star Baptist Church
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Lily Grove Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- River of Life Tabernacle — 0.6 mi away
- Lucedale Church of God In Christ — 0.7 mi away