Central Baptist Church
Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 970 Highway 550 in Brookhaven, MS 39601. It is one of 75 churches in Brookhaven, and one of 21 Baptist congregations in the city.
Wheelchair accessible
970 Highway 550, Brookhaven, MS, 39601Service times
- Sunday 10:45am–12pm
Central Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,482 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 71,352 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 Central 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. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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: 28.4%
- Diabetes: 18.3%
- Obesity: 43.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.7%
- Child Poverty: 35.7% (19.1–52.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
- Poverty Rate: 27.4% (18.7–36.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (7.1–17.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Brookhaven city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 367 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church
- Brookway Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Brookway Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Brookhaven Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- Centerpoint Church — 0.9 mi away
- Grace Community Church — 0.9 mi away
- Halbert Heights Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mount Wade Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Faith Presbyterian Church — 1 mi away
- Lacks Chapel — 1 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Redeemer — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Brookway Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Halbert Heights Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mount Wade Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
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