First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Hazlehurst, MS 39083. It is one of 56 churches in Hazlehurst, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
The Mission is simple.Love God. Love Others. Make Disciples.
We press forward toward the one mission clearly defined for us in the Great Commission and Great Commandmentlove God, love others, and make disciples.
Hazlehurst, MS, 39083Service times
- Sunday 10:30am · Morning Worship Services are streamed live week
- Sunday 10:30am · School Small Groups-
- Wednesday 6pm
Website: https://fbchazlehurst.com/
First 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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Latest from First Hazle's YouTube channel: Morning Worship (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 46.7%
- Poverty Rate: 39.4%
- Food Insecurity: 35.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 21.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.2%
- Unemployment: 11.4% (1.9–20.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.7% (7.7–19.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Hazlehurst city is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 617 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Walk of Faith Ministry — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hazlehurst United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Martin of Tours Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Zion Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Sinai United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Temple Holiness Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Damascus Church of Christ Holiness — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Damascus Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Shady Grove Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Spring Hill Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Wesson, MS
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