New Parkersburg Baptist Church
New Parkersburg Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Houston, MS 38851. It is one of 69 churches in Houston, and one of 22 Baptist congregations in the city.
Houston, MS, 38851New Parkersburg 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 New Parkersburg Baptist Church
It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.6%
- Food Insecurity: 31.1%
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Obesity: 44.9%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
- Poverty Rate: 27.0% (19.3–34.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.7%
- Child Poverty: 28.4% (15.8–41.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Parkersburg Baptist Church
- Wesley Chapel — 0.1 mi away
- Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Ross Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Concord Church — 2.6 mi away
- Pearson Chapel — 3.1 mi away
- Van Vlett Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 3.9 mi away in New Houlka, MS
- Friendship Church — 4.1 mi away
- Parkway Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Saxon Memorial Church of the Nazarene — 4.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Ross Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Van Vlett Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Parkway Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Houlka Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in New Houlka, MS
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