Handsboro Baptist Church
Handsboro Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1421 E Pass Rd in Gulfport, MS 39507. It is one of 161 churches in Gulfport, and one of 30 Baptist congregations in the city.
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Handsboro Baptist Church is a thriving faith community located in Gulfport, MS, dedicated to serving the surrounding areas through diverse ministries and programs.
1421 E Pass Rd, Gulfport, MS, 39507Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School
Phone: (228) 896-3796 · Website: https://handsborobaptist.com/
Handsboro 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 — 71,420 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 Handsboro Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 26.2%
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.5%
- Poverty Rate: 24.5% (13.9–35.1%)
- Diabetes: 16.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.3% (7.3–23.3%)
- Unemployment: 8.4% (0.9–17.4%)
- Obesity: 40.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%
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 Handsboro Baptist Church
- Church Of The King — 0.1 mi away
- Handsboro Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Riley Chapel United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Cowan Road Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint James Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Handsboro United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Light of the World — 0.7 mi away
- St. Marks Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fernwood Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Bayou View Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- St James Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church Gulfport — 2.5 mi away
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