Canaan Baptist Church
Canaan Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Columbus, MS 39701. It is one of 126 churches in Columbus, and one of 20 Baptist congregations in the city.
Columbus, MS, 39701Canaan Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Canaan Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 71.4%
- Obesity: 45.7%
- Food Insecurity: 42.4%
- Social Isolation: 40.6%
- Poverty Rate: 38.5% (27.7–49.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.6%
- Diabetes: 21.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.1% (7.6–18.6%)
- Unemployment: 7.2% (2.0–12.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Columbus city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 362 residents.
Churches near Canaan Baptist Church
- El Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Oak Grove M B Church — 0.3 mi away
- FVBCKids — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.5 mi away
- Shiloh Full Gospel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- East End Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Freewill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- St Paul Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Glad Tidings Assembly of God Church — 0.8 mi away