First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Macon, MS 39341. It is one of 67 churches in Macon, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Macon, MS, 39341First 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 First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 63.0% (44.9–81.0%)
- Obesity: 50.0%
- Food Insecurity: 43.1%
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Poverty Rate: 38.1% (26.8–49.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.8%
- Diabetes: 23.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.4% (14.3–30.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.6%
- Unemployment: 9.9% (0.6–19.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Macon city is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 257 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Macon Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Corpus Christi Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Macon Independant Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Nativity — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Dayspring Mission / Life Center, Macon Mississippi — 0.4 mi away
- West Sdie Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- West Sdie Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away