St Paul's Church of God In Christ
St Paul's Church of God In Christ is a Baptist church at 17214 MS-17 in Lexington, MS 39095-6614. It is one of 61 churches in Lexington, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
17214 MS-17, Lexington, MS, 39095-6614Phone: +16628343561 · Website: https://www.spcogic.com/history
St Paul's Church of God In Christ 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 St Paul's Church of God In Christ
It takes 6.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 51.3%
- Social Isolation: 42.7%
- Food Insecurity: 41.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.4%
- Poverty Rate: 36.4% (24.8–48.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.0%
- Diabetes: 23.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (0.4–13.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Paul's Church of God In Christ
- Epworth Church — 0.4 mi away
- Guiding Light COGIC — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Thomas Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Holmes County Baptist Association — 0.9 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.9 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 1 mi away
- St Mary's Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Sweethome Church — 1.1 mi away
- Beulah Church — 2.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Holmes County Baptist Association — 0.9 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 1 mi away
- Sunny Mount Missionary Baptist Church — 8.5 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 9 mi away
- Mount Moriah Church — 10.7 mi away in Pickens, MS
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