First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church at 48 Buckatunna Mount Zion Road in Buckatunna, MS 39322. It is one of 15 churches in Buckatunna.
48 Buckatunna Mount Zion Road, Buckatunna, MS, 39322First 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 — 71,417 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 4.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 47.2%
- Food Insecurity: 36.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.7%
- Diabetes: 20.1%
- Unemployment: 12.2% (2.5–23.0%)
- Social Isolation: 39.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.1%
- Poverty Rate: 26.8% (13.8–39.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 25.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.0%
- Child Poverty: 27.6% (9.1–46.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (6.6–21.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Buckatunna United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Buckatunna Free Will Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Canaan Land Baptist Mission — 0.7 mi away
- Sweet Pilgrim Church — 0.9 mi away
- Living Church of God Pentacostal — 1 mi away
- Philadelphia Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Church — 2.6 mi away
- Chicora First Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- African Church — 2.7 mi away in State Line, MS
- Mount Zion Church — 3.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Buckatunna Free Will Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Canaan Land Baptist Mission — 0.7 mi away
- Chicora First Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Mount Nebo Missionary Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away in State Line, MS
- Antioch Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away in Millry, AL
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