El Bethel Baptist Church
El Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Meridian, MS 39301. It is one of 221 churches in Meridian, and one of 60 Baptist congregations in the city.
Meridian, MS, 39301El Bethel 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 — 71,419 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 El Bethel 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third 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.
- Obesity: 51.9%
- Food Insecurity: 44.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.3%
- Poverty Rate: 38.3% (20.0–56.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.6%
- Diabetes: 26.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.8%
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Meridian city is served by 90 churches — about one congregation for every 361 residents.
Churches near El Bethel Baptist Church
- Ephesus Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bonds of Love Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Anderson Temple COGIC — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jubilee Mennonite Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Fitkins Memorial Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Sinai Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- 31st Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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