Southside Baptist Church
Southside Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 800 Raymond Road in Jackson, MS 39204. It is one of 478 churches in Jackson, and one of 121 Baptist congregations in the city.
Southside is a body of believers on a journey. Our beginnings were humble when in 1939, a handful of men, women and children stepped out in faith. Their spiritual pilgrimage continues today in a transitional, ever-changing city with a diversity of lives captivated by the love of Jesus Christ for a hurting world.
800 Raymond Road, Jackson, MS, 39204Service times
- Wednesday 6pm · Night Bible Study
Phone: (601) 372-9161 · Website: http://www.ssbaptistchurch.com/
Southside Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,483 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 71,418 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.
Ministries at Southside Baptist Church
- Celebrate Recovery
- Homeless Ministry
- Homebound Ministry
- Counseling
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The community around Southside 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 2,200 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: 71.6% (51.7–91.5%)
- Obesity: 52.5%
- Food Insecurity: 49.0%
- Poverty Rate: 47.9% (32.2–63.7%)
- Social Isolation: 42.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.8% (13.9–31.7%)
- Diabetes: 20.8%
- Unemployment: 14.7% (7.0–22.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.3% (13.1–22.2%)
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 Southside Baptist Church
- Southside Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- New Horizon Church — 0.3 mi away
- Disciples Of Christ Family Worship Center — 0.4 mi away in Edwards, MS
- Apostolic Church Jackson — 0.5 mi away
- Church Of The Apostles' Doctrine — 0.5 mi away
- First Independent Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Christian’s Community Center — 0.7 mi away
- Tabernacle of Alpha and Omega Church — 0.8 mi away
- True Gospel International Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Free Mission Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Alta Woods Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Nebo Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Greater Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- McDowell Road Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
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