Galilee First Baptist Church
Galilee First Baptist Church is a church at 315 E Main St in Gloster, MS 39638-9012. It is one of 30 churches in Gloster.
315 E Main St, Gloster, MS, 39638-9012Phone: +16012257533 · Website: http://galileebaptistchurch.net
Shares a ministry location with Holy Family Catholic Church.
Galilee 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 Galilee First Baptist Church
It takes 6.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 47.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.9%
- Food Insecurity: 30.2%
- Diabetes: 22.1%
- Child Poverty: 36.2% (17.8–54.5%)
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
- Poverty Rate: 29.3% (20.0–38.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.4% (7.2–19.5%)
- Unemployment: 6.9% (1.0–12.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Galilee First Baptist Church
- Holy Family Catholic Church — 0 mi away
- Gloster Church of the Nazarene — 0.1 mi away
- Gloster United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gloster First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sharron Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Spirit Life Church — 0.6 mi away
- Sweet Home Church — 3 mi away
- Damascus Church — 3.8 mi away
- Union Church — 4 mi away
- Macedonia Church — 4.1 mi away in Centreville, MS
More Baptist churches nearby
- Gloster First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 6.5 mi away
- Crosby Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away in Crosby, MS
- Christ Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away in Crosby, MS
- Centreville Baptist Church — 8 mi away in Centreville, MS
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