First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Bruce, MS 38915. It is one of 19 churches in Bruce, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
We seek to accomplish this by strengthen the saints, sharing our faith, and serving our community.
Bruce, MS, 38915First 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 First Baptist Church
It takes 4.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.0%
- Food Insecurity: 27.4%
- Diabetes: 20.2%
- Obesity: 43.3%
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Poverty Rate: 24.8% (15.9–33.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bruce town is served by 4 churches — about one congregation for every 326 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Bruce United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Believers Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bruce Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Jackson Chapel Church — 0.8 mi away
- Light House Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Bethel Primitive Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Mount Comfort Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away in Pittsboro, MS
- Calvary Church — 3.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bethel Primitive Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Mount Comfort Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away in Pittsboro, MS
- Pittsboro First Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Pittsboro, MS
- Banner Baptist Church — 7 mi away