First Baptist Church
First 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.
We are called to bless our Greenwood community and the Mississippi Delta while continuing to proclaim Jesus through domestic and international missions.
Greenwood, MS, 38930Service times
- Sunday 10am · in-person
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 10am
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 First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 42.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.1%
- Poverty Rate: 34.7% (21.5–47.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.7%
- Diabetes: 22.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.3%
- Unemployment: 15.3% (8.2–22.5%)
- Obesity: 44.8%
- Social Isolation: 39.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.5% (10.4–24.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Greenwood city is served by 30 churches — about one congregation for every 459 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church — 0 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Living Faith Cathedral — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Nativity — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hill View Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Point Church — 0.4 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Hill View Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Friendship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Strangers Home Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- North Greenwood Baptist Church "The RocK" — 0.8 mi away
- North Greenwood Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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