First Baptist Church of Marks
First Baptist Church of Marks is a Baptist church in Marks, MS 38646. It is one of 31 churches in Marks, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
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Marks, MS, 38646Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
Website: http://firstboynton.com/
First Baptist Church of Marks 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 of Marks
It takes 3.3 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 51.9%
- Food Insecurity: 39.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.1%
- Diabetes: 24.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.3%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Child Poverty: 35.0% (17.5–52.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.9%
- Poverty Rate: 24.8% (16.5–33.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.2%
- Unemployment: 10.4% (3.5–17.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (7.3–16.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Marks
- Marks Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Marks United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Marks Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Belmount M. B. Church — 0.2 mi away
- Silent Grove Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Mount Zion Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Valley Queen Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Paradise MB Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Church of God — 1.2 mi away
- West Marks Church — 1.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Silent Grove Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Valley Queen Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Lambert — 3.7 mi away in Lambert, MS
- Belen Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away
- Blue Lake Baptist Church — 9.5 mi away in Lambert, MS