Chicora First Baptist Church
Chicora First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Buckatunna, MS 39322. It is one of 15 churches in Buckatunna.
Buckatunna, MS, 39322Chicora First 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 Chicora First Baptist Church
It takes 5.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and 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. 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.
- Obesity: 46.0%
- Food Insecurity: 32.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Unemployment: 12.2% (3.4–21.9%)
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.8%
- Poverty Rate: 26.7% (14.5–39.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.3%
- Child Poverty: 27.6% (9.1–46.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (5.7–19.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Chicora First Baptist Church
- Saint Paul Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
- Buckatunna Free Will Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Canaan Land Baptist Mission — 2.3 mi away
- Philadelphia Church — 2.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Buckatunna United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Pineville Church — 2.9 mi away in Waynesboro, MS
- Sweet Pilgrim Church — 3.3 mi away
- Living Church of God Pentacostal — 3.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Buckatunna Free Will Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Canaan Land Baptist Mission — 2.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Big Creek Church — 6.6 mi away in Waynesboro, MS
- Mount Nebo Missionary Baptist Church — 6.8 mi away in State Line, MS
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