West Carthage Baptist Church
West Carthage Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 810 Highway 16 W in Carthage, MS 39051-4321. It is one of 79 churches in Carthage, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
About Us Our Mission Desiring to faithfully carry out Jesus' words in John 3:16, the faith family at WCBC is committed to being a "whosoever" church. We are a multi-ethnic and multi-generational church desiring to worship our Lord and grow in relationship with our Savior Jesus Christ, seeking to obey all that he commanded.
810 Highway 16 W, Carthage, MS, 39051-4321Service times
- Sunday 11am · Worship
Phone: +16012677820 · Website: https://www.westcarthagebaptist.com/
West Carthage 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 West Carthage Baptist Church
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: 58.4%
- Obesity: 45.4%
- Food Insecurity: 34.6%
- Poverty Rate: 32.9% (24.3–41.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.2% (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% (3.4–14.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near West Carthage Baptist Church
- First Apostolic Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Carthage,MS — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Hall Of Jehovah's — 0.6 mi away
- King David Temple Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Carthage United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Carthage Presbyterian Church — 1 mi away
- First Baptist Carthage — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Anne Catholic Church — 1.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- First Baptist Carthage — 1.3 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
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