New Morning Star Baptist Church
New Morning Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Clarksdale, MS 38614. It is one of 93 churches in Clarksdale, and one of 18 Baptist congregations in the city.
Clarksdale, MS, 38614New Morning Star 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 New Morning Star Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half 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: 60.0% (40.6–79.4%)
- Obesity: 50.2%
- Food Insecurity: 45.5%
- Poverty Rate: 43.8% (30.1–57.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.7%
- Diabetes: 26.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.2%
- Unemployment: 16.5% (7.0–26.0%)
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7% (11.6–20.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.6% (7.9–19.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Clarksdale city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 346 residents.
Churches near New Morning Star Baptist Church
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Bell Grove Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Chapel Hill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cunningham Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Carmel Church — 0.3 mi away
- Union Grove Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hickory Grove Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ The King Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Rayford Chapel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bell Grove Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Union Grove Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rayford Chapel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Centennial Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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