Forrest Heights Baptist Church
Forrest Heights Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 5215 Ohio Ave in Gulfport, MS 39501. It is one of 162 churches in Gulfport, and one of 6 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
5215 Ohio Ave, Gulfport, MS, 39501Service times
- Wednesday 6pm · Bible Study Table Talk
Phone: +12288647112 · Website: https://www.forrestheightsbc.org/
Forrest Heights 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 Forrest Heights 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 adults live with obesity. 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: 53.4%
- Obesity: 51.9%
- Poverty Rate: 44.6% (25.5–63.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.2%
- Social Isolation: 41.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 28.2%
- Diabetes: 26.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.5% (9.0–22.1%)
- Unemployment: 9.1% (1.2–17.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Forrest Heights Baptist Church
- People Mission Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Worship Mission — 0.3 mi away
- St Andrews Church of God In Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Second Sweet Home Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Friendship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Full Gospel Holiness Church — 0.5 mi away
- Rivers of Living Waters Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Rescue Mission Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Rescue Mission Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Bethany Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
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