Wahalak First Baptist Church
Wahalak First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in MS 39358.
MS, 39358Wahalak First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,481 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 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 Wahalak First Baptist Church
It takes 7.4 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 more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 46.4%
- Child Poverty: 41.8% (30.8–52.8%)
- Social Isolation: 40.5%
- Food Insecurity: 34.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.3%
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Unemployment: 12.7% (4.7–20.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.8%
- Poverty Rate: 28.0% (20.0–36.0%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.7% (13.0–24.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Wahalak First Baptist Church
- Shiloh Church — 2.6 mi away
- Spring Hill Church — 3.5 mi away
- Mount Ararat Church — 4.5 mi away
- Calvary M.B. Church - Shuqualak, MS — 4.7 mi away in Shuqualak, MS
- New Chapel Church — 5 mi away
- Kemper Church — 5.3 mi away
- The Linked Church — 5.3 mi away in Shuqualak, MS
- Antioch Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away
- Chapel In the Pines — 6.2 mi away in Scooba, MS
- Blue Chapel — 6.7 mi away in Scooba, MS
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