St John Baptist Church
St John Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 827 S 8th Ave in Laurel, MS 39440-5215. It is one of 144 churches in Laurel, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
827 S 8th Ave, Laurel, MS, 39440-5215Phone: +16013351335 · Website: https://sjbc.org/
St John 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.
Ministries at St John Baptist Church
- Greeters Ministry
- Altar Guild
- Mid-Week Power Hour/Power Half Hour Service
- Dancers of Inspiration
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The community around St John Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 47.0%
- Food Insecurity: 32.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
- Poverty Rate: 29.8% (15.4–44.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.6% (9.9–27.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.8%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (2.4–15.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St John Baptist Church
- Southside Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Sweet Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Elmo Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- South Laurel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pentecostal Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- St Paul United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Second Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sweet Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Elmo Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- South Laurel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Second Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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