Plainway Baptist Church
Plainway Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Laurel, MS 39440. It is one of 144 churches in Laurel, and one of 38 Baptist congregations in the city.
Laurel, MS, 39440Plainway 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 Plainway 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. 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: 37.3%
- Child Poverty: 34.8% (16.6–53.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.9%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
- Poverty Rate: 21.4% (11.2–31.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (4.3–22.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Laurel city is served by 45 churches — about one congregation for every 217 residents.
Churches near Plainway Baptist Church
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Laurel Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sylva Rena Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Water Valley, MS
- Magnolia Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Parkview Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Cornerstone Independant Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- West Laurel United Methodist — 0.6 mi away
- Ignite Church — 0.7 mi away
- West Laurel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church of Laurel — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sylva Rena Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Water Valley, MS
- Magnolia Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Parkview Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Cornerstone Independant Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- West Laurel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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