Forrest Avenue Baptist Church

Forrest Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Biloxi, MS 39530. It is one of 81 churches in Biloxi, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.

Biloxi, MS, 39530

Forrest Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,483 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 71,418 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 Forrest Avenue Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on, and about 1 in 5 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 37.5%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 20.8% (9.4–32.4%)
  • Food Insecurity: 19.3%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (6.5–20.2%)

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

Biloxi city is served by 27 churches — about one congregation for every 1,784 residents.

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