New Hope Baptist Church
New Hope Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Leakesville, MS 39451. It is one of 26 churches in Leakesville, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Leakesville, MS, 39451New Hope 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 New Hope Baptist Church
It takes 5.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Food Insecurity: 25.3%
- Unemployment: 17.0% (6.5–27.5%)
- Obesity: 44.4%
- Social Isolation: 36.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
- Poverty Rate: 24.8% (14.1–35.5%)
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Child Poverty: 25.1% (7.4–42.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (6.9–21.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Hope Baptist Church
- First United Pentecostal Church — 0.9 mi away
- True Light Apostolic Outreach Center — 0.9 mi away
- Holy Trinity Catholic Church — 1 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 1 mi away
- Leakesville Missionary Baptist — 1.1 mi away
- Leakesville Presbyterian Church — 1.1 mi away
- Leakesville Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Apostolic Tabernacle — 1.5 mi away
- East Salem Church — 2.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Leakesville Missionary Baptist — 1.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Pine Level Baptist Church — 3 mi away
- Covenant Baptist Church — 7.8 mi away in Lucedale, MS
- Fellowship Freewill Baptist Church — 8.3 mi away in State Line, MS
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