Morris Baptist Church

Morris Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Morris, GA.

From a two-room building on Morris Street, Morris Street Baptist Church emerged as the "Mother Church among Negro Baptists" in The Low Country of South Carolina on May 9, 1865.

Elevator · Part of Charleston County Missionary Baptist Association

Morris, GA

Service times

  • Sunday 8:30am · School -
  • Sunday 10am · morning service -

Phone: (843) 723-0408 · Website: https://www.morrisstreetbaptist.org/

Morris Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,847 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 71,420 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.

Ministries at Morris Baptist Church

  • Food Bank
  • Social Butterflies

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The community around Morris Baptist Church

It takes 6.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults live with diabetes. 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.

  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 31.5%
  • Diabetes: 23.3%
  • Obesity: 44.5%
  • Social Isolation: 38.3%
  • Child Poverty: 31.2% (12.6–49.8%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 22.8%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.2%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 21.5% (12.3–30.7%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.0%
  • Transportation Barriers: 15.9%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (6.9–18.2%)
  • Unemployment: 8.0% (0.8–15.3%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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