Oak Forest Baptist Church
Oak Forest Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Jackson, MS 39212. It is one of 479 churches in Jackson, and one of 104 Baptist congregations in the city.
Jackson, MS, 39212Website: http://oakforestbc.com
Oak Forest 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 Oak Forest Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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: 70.5% (50.6–90.4%)
- Obesity: 51.3%
- Food Insecurity: 47.5%
- Social Isolation: 43.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 39.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.7%
- Poverty Rate: 30.1% (16.3–43.8%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.7%
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.2%
- Unemployment: 9.7% (4.7–14.7%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.7% (8.2–21.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Jackson city is served by 237 churches — about one congregation for every 627 residents.
Churches near Oak Forest Baptist Church
- Capital City Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Westview Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Anderson South United Method — 0.3 mi away
- The Epicenter Church — 0.8 mi away
- Epworth United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- St Paul Church of God In Christ — 0.8 mi away
- McDowell Road Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Alabaster Church of God In Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Hillcrest Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Victory AME Zion Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Capital City Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Westview Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- McDowell Road Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Hillcrest Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Way of Grace Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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