New Mount Zion Baptist Church

New Mount Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Greenville, MS 38701. It is one of 149 churches in Greenville, and one of 39 Baptist congregations in the city.

Greenville, MS, 38701

New Mount Zion 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 New Mount Zion Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.

  • Child Poverty: 83.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 54.1%
  • Obesity: 50.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 45.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 44.5% (30.5–58.5%)
  • Social Isolation: 40.2%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.1%
  • Housing Insecurity: 37.7%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.7%
  • Transportation Barriers: 28.4%
  • Diabetes: 28.0%
  • Unemployment: 20.8% (8.1–33.5%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.0%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.0% (11.0–23.1%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Greenville city is served by 72 churches — about one congregation for every 310 residents.

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