Locust Grove Baptist Church
Locust Grove 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, 38930Website: http://www.locustgrove.com/
Locust Grove 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 Locust Grove 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. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 50.4%
- Child Poverty: 48.9% (29.3–68.5%)
- Obesity: 48.6%
- Social Isolation: 42.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.6%
- Poverty Rate: 33.8% (22.6–45.0%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.0%
- Diabetes: 23.7%
- Unemployment: 16.6% (7.0–26.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.8% (9.4–22.2%)
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 Locust Grove Baptist Church
- Jerusalem Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- De Cell United Methodist — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.4 mi away
- Empowerment Deliverance Temple — 0.4 mi away
- The Salvation Army - Greenwood - Command — 0.4 mi away
- Union Grove Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Miracle Deliverance Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Foundation Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Jones Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Knights Hall of Jehovah Witness — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Grove Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Foundation Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Jones Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Community Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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