First Baptist Church
First 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, 39701First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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 more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 70.5%
- Poverty Rate: 40.1% (26.9–53.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 38.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.3%
- Diabetes: 20.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.6%
- Obesity: 44.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (5.8–19.4%)
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 First Baptist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Main Street Presbyterian — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Catherine Orthodox Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Columbus First Methodist — 0.2 mi away
- Hope Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Bible Way Progressive Church — 0.2 mi away
- Annunciation Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Pauls Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away