Griffith Memorial Baptist Church
Griffith Memorial Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Jackson, MS 39204. It is one of 479 churches in Jackson, and one of 104 Baptist congregations in the city.
Jackson, MS, 39204Shares a ministry location with Jackson Revival Center Church.
Griffith Memorial 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 Griffith Memorial Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 73.2% (53.3–93.1%)
- Social Isolation: 44.8%
- Food Insecurity: 40.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.1%
- Poverty Rate: 36.1% (17.9–54.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.7%
- Unemployment: 13.9% (5.6–22.2%)
- Obesity: 44.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.0% (10.2–21.9%)
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9% (11.7–19.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Jackson city is served by 237 churches — about one congregation for every 627 residents.
Churches near Griffith Memorial Baptist Church
- Jackson Revival Center Church — 0 mi away
- Miracle Temple Church of Deliverance — 0.1 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Clark Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Evangelist Temple Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- House of Prayer Pentecostal Temple — 0.5 mi away
- Miracle Temple Church of Deliverance — 0.5 mi away
- Marantha Church — 0.5 mi away
- Davis Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Rosemont Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Clark Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rosemont Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Zion Travelers Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Galilee Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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