East Howard Baptist Church
East Howard Baptist Church is a church at 241 Howard Ave in Biloxi, MS 39530-4611. It is one of 81 churches in Biloxi.
241 Howard Ave, Biloxi, MS, 39530-4611Phone: +12284321022 · Website: http://23990.lifewaylink.com
East Howard 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 East Howard Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 57.7% (40.1–76.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 44.9%
- Poverty Rate: 43.8% (31.2–56.3%)
- Social Isolation: 40.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 27.8% (20.6–35.0%)
- Diabetes: 23.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.8%
- Obesity: 43.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.7%
- Unemployment: 10.1% (3.5–16.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near East Howard Baptist Church
- Vietnamese Martyrs Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Michael Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Eat End United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Louis Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Church of the Redeemer — 1 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- St. Paul United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Division Street Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Division Street Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Main Street Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church of Faith — 1.5 mi away
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