First Baptist Church of Sharon
First Baptist Church of Sharon is a Baptist church in Laurel, MS 39443. It is one of 144 churches in Laurel, and one of 38 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1881 · Part of Jones County Baptist Association
Laurel, MS, 39443Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 8am
- Sunday 8:45am · School
First Baptist Church of Sharon 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 of Sharon
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, 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.
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
- Food Insecurity: 21.1%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.3% (6.3–24.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
- Poverty Rate: 18.8% (10.0–27.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Sharon
- Bethlehem Church — 1.9 mi away
- Sun Light Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Erratta Church — 2.9 mi away
- Friendship Church — 3 mi away
- Church of the Harvest — 3 mi away
- Faith Ministries Independent Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Sandersville, MS
- East Tallahoma Church — 3.8 mi away
- Victory Missionary Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Sandersville Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Sandersville, MS
- Trinity Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sun Light Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Faith Ministries Independent Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Sandersville, MS
- Victory Missionary Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Sandersville Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Sandersville, MS
- Trinity Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
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