First Baptist Church of Carthage,MS
First Baptist Church of Carthage,MS is a church at 300 Pressley Rd in Carthage, MS 39051-4032. It is one of 79 churches in Carthage.
300 Pressley Rd, Carthage, MS, 39051-4032Phone: (601) 267-9360 · Website: http://1stbaptistcarthage.org/
First Baptist Church of Carthage,MS 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 of Carthage,MS
In the few miles around this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 58.6%
- Obesity: 45.5%
- Food Insecurity: 34.6%
- Poverty Rate: 33.0% (24.4–41.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.3% (14.0–26.5%)
- Social Isolation: 38.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.6%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Unemployment: 8.9% (3.4–14.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Carthage,MS
- Kingdom Hall Of Jehovah's — 0.3 mi away
- West Carthage Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Carthage United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Carthage Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Anne Catholic Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Apostolic Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Baptist Carthage — 1 mi away
- King David Temple Church — 1 mi away
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- West Carthage Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Carthage — 1 mi away
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
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