Eastgate Baptist Church
Eastgate Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Greenwood, MS 38930. It is one of 95 churches in Greenwood, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
Greenwood, MS, 38930Eastgate 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 Eastgate Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of 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: 50.2% (30.9–69.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 48.5%
- Obesity: 47.8%
- Social Isolation: 41.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.3%
- Poverty Rate: 33.9% (22.8–45.0%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.0%
- Diabetes: 23.3%
- Unemployment: 15.6% (6.6–24.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.2% (8.9–21.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Eastgate Baptist Church
- Providence M.B. Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Apostolic Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Monument of Grace Church, Inc — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Green Grove Church of Faith — 0.9 mi away
- The Salvation Army - Greenwood - Command — 1 mi away
- Empowerment Deliverance Temple — 1 mi away
- Free Will Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Free Will Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Locust Grove Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Union Grove Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
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