Smyrna Baptist Church
Smyrna 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.
Hazlehurst, MS, 39083Smyrna 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 Smyrna Baptist Church
It takes 5.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Food Insecurity: 25.3%
- Obesity: 41.9%
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Poverty Rate: 20.0% (12.4–27.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (7.8–20.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.2%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (1.8–12.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Smyrna Baptist Church
- Wilderness Church — 1.8 mi away
- Center Point Church — 3.2 mi away
- Saint Morris Church — 3.3 mi away
- Pleasant Ridge Church — 3.4 mi away
- New Salem Church — 3.7 mi away
- Tabernacle Church — 4.2 mi away
- Mount Canna Church — 4.4 mi away
- Mount Olive Church — 5.1 mi away
- Hall Hill Church — 5.6 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Antioch Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away
- Damascus Baptist Church — 6.5 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 6.7 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 6.8 mi away
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