First Missionary Baptist Church
First Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Biloxi, MS 39530. It is one of 81 churches in Biloxi, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
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Biloxi, MS, 39530Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am
- Sunday 9:30am · morning worship service starting
- Sunday 2pm
- Sunday 9am
First Missionary 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.
Ministries at First Missionary Baptist Church
- Food pantry
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The community around First Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 34.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.9%
- Diabetes: 20.5%
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Social Isolation: 37.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
- Poverty Rate: 29.1% (16.1–42.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.0% (11.0–25.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.7%
- Child Poverty: 28.5% (19.2–49.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.7%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (1.5–13.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Biloxi city is served by 27 churches — about one congregation for every 1,784 residents.
Churches near First Missionary Baptist Church
- St. Paul United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Division Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lighthouse Apostolic Biloxi — 0.3 mi away
- Main Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of the Redeemer — 0.4 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church of Faith — 0.4 mi away
- Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Division Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Main Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church of Faith — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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