Canaan Baptist Church
Canaan Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Columbus, MS 39702. It is one of 182 churches in Columbus, and one of 33 Baptist congregations in the city.
Columbus, MS, 39702Canaan 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 Canaan Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 28.2%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Obesity: 40.8%
- Social Isolation: 38.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (6.4–18.9%)
- Unemployment: 6.4% (1.3–11.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Columbus city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 362 residents.
Churches near Canaan Baptist Church
- First Independent Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Columbus Seventh-day Adventist — 0.3 mi away
- First Southern Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- East Columbus Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd — 0.9 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mc Bee Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Stephen Church — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mc Bee Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- McBee Union Church — 1 mi away
- Fairview Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 2 mi away
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