Southway Baptist Church
Southway Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Brookhaven, MS 39601. It is one of 75 churches in Brookhaven, and one of 21 Baptist congregations in the city.
Brookhaven, MS, 39601Southway 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 Southway Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, 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 tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 30.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.7% (11.2–30.3%)
- Diabetes: 18.9%
- Obesity: 43.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
- Poverty Rate: 23.4% (10.5–36.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
- Child Poverty: 23.9% (5.2–42.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Brookhaven city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 367 residents.
Churches near Southway Baptist Church
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Center Street Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Grace Life Church of Brookhaven — 0.8 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church — 0.9 mi away
- Brookhaven Church of God — 1 mi away
- Abundant Life Christian Center — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Halbert Heights Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Mark Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
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