Bethany Baptist Church
Bethany Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gulfport, MS 39501. It is one of 161 churches in Gulfport, and one of 30 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission at Bethany Baptist Church is to bear the fruit of the gospel through proclaiming the name of Jesus Christ.
Gulfport, MS, 39501Shares a ministry location with Trumpet In Zion Fellowship.
Bethany Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,483 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 71,417 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 Bethany 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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.
- Obesity: 48.6%
- Food Insecurity: 47.8%
- Social Isolation: 41.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.9%
- Poverty Rate: 37.4% (22.6–52.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.2%
- Diabetes: 21.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.3% (12.4–28.2%)
- Unemployment: 15.2% (2.3–28.2%)
- Child Poverty: 35.3% (17.6–53.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Gulfport city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 1,727 residents.
Churches near Bethany Baptist Church
- Trumpet In Zion Fellowship — 0 mi away
- Gulfport Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Testament Pentacostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- True Deliverance Outreach Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- First United Gospel Assembly — 0.3 mi away
- Hope Church Gulf Coast — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Burton Memorial Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Discovery Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Memorial Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Bethel Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Greater Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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