First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Itta Bena, MS 38941. It is one of 27 churches in Itta Bena, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Itta Bena, MS, 38941First 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 First Baptist Church
It takes 5.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 40.0%
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.2%
- Poverty Rate: 30.4% (19.8–41.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.0%
- Diabetes: 20.7%
- Unemployment: 16.9% (8.3–25.5%)
- Obesity: 44.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.6% (8.0–19.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Itta Bena-Morgan City Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Samuel Chapel United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Rest Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Christ Temple Apostolic Faith Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Steadfast Ministries — 1.4 mi away
- New Foundation Church — 1.5 mi away
- Victorious Faith Ministries COGIC — 1.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Mary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Victorious Faith Ministries COGIC — 1.6 mi away
- Goodhope Baptist Church — 6.7 mi away in Greenwood, MS
- Travelers Rest MB Church — 7 mi away in Greenwood, MS
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