First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Leland, MS 38756. It is one of 51 churches in Leland, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
Leland, MS, 38756Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School
- Sunday 10:30am · Worship
- Wednesday 6pm · Night Family Supper
First 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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Latest from First Baptist Church Leland, MS's YouTube channel: Psalm 16 Confidence in the Lord (John Shelby Edwards) (all videos).
The community around First 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. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 30.8%
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Obesity: 42.8%
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
- Poverty Rate: 26.3% (14.0–38.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (2.4–20.8%)
- Unemployment: 6.4% (1.5–11.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Iglesia Comunidad Hispana, Leland, MS — 0 mi away
- Leland Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Leland United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- St James A M E Church Leland — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Mission — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Peters Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Peters Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Beulah Grove Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Parkview Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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