Van Vlett Baptist Church
Van Vlett 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, 38851Van Vlett 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 Van Vlett Baptist Church
It takes 4.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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: 32.2%
- Food Insecurity: 30.5%
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Obesity: 44.7%
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.7%
- Poverty Rate: 26.3% (18.4–34.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.3%
- Child Poverty: 29.8% (16.6–42.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (6.1–16.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Van Vlett Baptist Church
- Ross Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Friendship Church — 1.5 mi away
- Van Vleet United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- New Zion Church — 2.8 mi away
- New Parkersburg Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Wesley Chapel — 3.2 mi away
- Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Concord Church — 3.8 mi away
- Palestine Missionary Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
- Macedonia Church — 4.8 mi away in New Houlka, MS
More Baptist churches nearby
- Ross Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- New Parkersburg Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Palestine Missionary Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
- Center Hill Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away in New Houlka, MS
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