Priest Creek Missionary Baptist Church

Priest Creek Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 228 Tatum Road in Hattiesburg, MS 39401. It is one of 186 churches in Hattiesburg, and one of 35 Baptist congregations in the city.

228 Tatum Road, Hattiesburg, MS, 39401

Phone: +1-601-582-0036 · Website: http://www.priestcreekmbc.org/

Priest Creek Missionary 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 Priest Creek Missionary Baptist Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 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 tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.

  • Food Insecurity: 25.6%
  • Child Poverty: 35.3% (17.6–53.2%)
  • Social Isolation: 35.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.4%
  • Diabetes: 17.8%
  • Obesity: 39.1%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 22.0% (12.3–31.7%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.8% (10.1–19.5%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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

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