Forest Baptist Church
Forest Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 439 E First Street in Forest, MS 39074. It is one of 56 churches in Forest, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
439 E First Street, Forest, MS, 39074Service times
- Sunday 9:45am · School
Phone: (601) 469-2206 · Website: https://forestbaptistchurch.net/
Forest 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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Latest from Forest Baptist Church's YouTube channel: Night of Worship 2026 (all videos).
The community around Forest Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Food Insecurity: 36.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.5%
- Obesity: 43.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.1%
- Child Poverty: 32.1% (17.5–46.8%)
- Poverty Rate: 22.3% (13.9–30.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.3%
- Diabetes: 17.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.3% (10.9–21.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Forest city is served by 10 churches — about one congregation for every 513 residents.
Churches near Forest Baptist Church
- Forest Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Forest Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lynch Chapel United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Life Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Bet-el — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Hall — 0.4 mi away
- Assembly of God Church — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia Getsemani M.A.V. — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Greater Deliverance Church of God in Christ — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Sand Ridge Baptist Church — 6.4 mi away in Lake, MS
- Hillsboro Baptist Church — 7.2 mi away
- Lone Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church — 8.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 8.5 mi away in Lake, MS
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