Southside Baptist Church
Southside 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, 39701Southside 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 — 71,418 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 Southside Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 72.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Poverty Rate: 37.7%
- Food Insecurity: 36.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.6%
- Diabetes: 18.7%
- Obesity: 42.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0% (10.8–17.8%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (6.8–16.3%)
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 Southside Baptist Church
- Turner Chapel AME Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.4 mi away
- Carrier Chapel — 0.4 mi away
- Baptist Student Union — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- A Prepared Table Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- East End Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- South Side Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Shiloh Full Gospel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Friendship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- East End Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- South Side Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Shiloh Full Gospel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Freewill Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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