Pure Light Missionary Baptist Church
Pure Light Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Jackson, MS 39209. It is one of 479 churches in Jackson, and one of 104 Baptist congregations in the city.
Jackson, MS, 39209Pure Light Missionary 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 Pure Light Missionary 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 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: 69.3%
- Obesity: 51.0%
- Food Insecurity: 42.8%
- Social Isolation: 40.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.6%
- Poverty Rate: 31.3% (18.7–43.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 31.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.5%
- Diabetes: 23.2%
- Unemployment: 12.5% (3.6–21.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 21.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (7.3–20.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Jackson city is served by 237 churches — about one congregation for every 627 residents.
Churches near Pure Light Missionary Baptist Church
- Greater Love Temple COGIC MS — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Northside Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Shiloh MB Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Travelers Rest Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Mount Calvary Christian Center — 0.5 mi away
- Church of the First Born House of Prayer — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Zion Church of Christ Holiness — 0.5 mi away
- True Gospel Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Norman Chapel MB Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Northside Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Travelers Rest Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New McRaven Hill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Burch Hill Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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