Missionary Union Baptist Church
Missionary Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Columbus, MS 39701. It is one of 182 churches in Columbus, and one of 33 Baptist congregations in the city.
Columbus, MS, 39701Website: https://www.missionaryunionbc.org/
Missionary Union 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 Missionary Union 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 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: 71.3%
- Obesity: 45.7%
- Poverty Rate: 40.4% (25.9–54.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 40.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.6%
- Diabetes: 22.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.6%
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.2%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (2.8–14.8%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.6% (6.1–21.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 Missionary Union Baptist Church
- Sanders Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bible Way Progressive Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Sixth Ave Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Northside Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Catherine Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fifteenth Street Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- A Prepared Table Ministries — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Northside Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Freewill Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St Paul Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Stephens Chapel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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