Bethel Baptist Church
Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Meridian, MS 39307. It is one of 221 churches in Meridian, and one of 60 Baptist congregations in the city.
Meridian, MS, 39307Bethel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,483 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 71,417 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 Bethel 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. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 87.9%
- Food Insecurity: 54.6%
- Obesity: 53.6%
- Poverty Rate: 50.2% (36.0–64.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.3%
- Social Isolation: 42.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 38.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 29.3%
- Diabetes: 25.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (5.9–19.9%)
- Unemployment: 7.2% (1.6–13.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Meridian city is served by 90 churches — about one congregation for every 361 residents.
Churches near Bethel Baptist Church
- Sunlight Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fifth Street United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Temple Church — 0.4 mi away
- Breaking Chain Ministry — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Union Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sunlight Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Union Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Freedom Rock Christian Fellowship — 0.7 mi away
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