First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church at 302 East Holly Street in Ellisville, MS 39437. It is one of 46 churches in Ellisville, and one of 2 Southern Baptist congregations in the city.

302 East Holly Street, Ellisville, MS, 39437

Phone: +1-601-477-3256 · Website: http://www.ellisvillesfbc.org/

First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,481 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 71,872 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 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 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.

  • Social Isolation: 40.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 35.3% (23.5–47.1%)
  • Food Insecurity: 33.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.3%
  • Obesity: 44.0%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 22.9%
  • Transportation Barriers: 19.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.4% (10.4–24.4%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.0%
  • Diabetes: 15.8%
  • Unemployment: 10.5% (3.9–17.1%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Ellisville city is served by 9 churches — about one congregation for every 456 residents.

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