Kindling Star Baptist Church
Kindling Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Greenville, MS 38701. It is one of 121 churches in Greenville, and one of 38 Baptist congregations in the city.
Greenville, MS, 38701Kindling Star Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Kindling Star 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 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 2 in 3 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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: 80.7%
- Food Insecurity: 63.0%
- Obesity: 54.6%
- Poverty Rate: 53.4% (38.6–68.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 50.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 44.0%
- Social Isolation: 40.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 39.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 36.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 34.0%
- Diabetes: 30.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.9%
- Unemployment: 20.4% (7.0–34.0%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (7.4–16.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Greenville city is served by 72 churches — about one congregation for every 310 residents.
Churches near Kindling Star Baptist Church
- Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Full Gospel Temple — 0.1 mi away
- Seven Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rose Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hopewell Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hinds Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Salvation Army Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Horeb Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away