Main Street Baptist Church

Main Street Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church at 11 Main Street Boulevard in Hattiesburg, MS 39402. It is one of 186 churches in Hattiesburg, and one of 9 Southern Baptist congregations in the city.

11 Main Street Boulevard, Hattiesburg, MS, 39402

Phone: +1-601-296-8000 · Website: http://mainstreetbaptistchurch.org/

Main Street 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 Main Street Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 53.5% (35.1–71.9%)
  • Poverty Rate: 34.2% (20.7–47.7%)
  • Food Insecurity: 29.5%
  • Obesity: 42.5%
  • Social Isolation: 37.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
  • Housing Insecurity: 21.9%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.1% (11.0–25.3%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.7%
  • Unemployment: 9.0% (1.9–16.4%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
  • Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7%
  • Diabetes: 13.9%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Hattiesburg city is served by 74 churches — about one congregation for every 689 residents.

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