Mount Bethel Baptist Church
Mount Bethel 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.
Gulfport, MS, 39501Mount Bethel 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 — 71,418 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 Mount Bethel 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third 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.
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Food Insecurity: 36.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.7% (14.7–32.8%)
- Diabetes: 18.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.2%
- Unemployment: 13.9% (2.0–26.0%)
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.3%
- Child Poverty: 33.0% (16.0–50.3%)
- Poverty Rate: 29.4% (18.0–40.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Gulfport city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 1,727 residents.
Churches near Mount Bethel Baptist Church
- Progressive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Paul AME Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Memorial Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Word of Faith Christian — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bible Way Baptist Church Gulfport, MS — 0.5 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Memorial Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bible Way Baptist Church Gulfport, MS — 0.5 mi away
- Gulf Gardens Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Greater Love Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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