El Bethel Baptist Church
El Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Meridian, MS 39307. It is one of 168 churches in Meridian, and one of 38 Baptist congregations in the city.
Meridian, MS, 39307Website: http://elbethelbaptist.com/
El Bethel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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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 nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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: 50.4%
- Food Insecurity: 46.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.7%
- Poverty Rate: 36.9% (23.2–50.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 32.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.9%
- Diabetes: 22.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.1% (7.1–21.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 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
- Christian Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jones Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pilgrim Hill United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mer Parish United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Canaan Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Parkview Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Highland Assembly of God Church — 0.5 mi away
- Life Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Meridian Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Agape Fellowship — 0.7 mi away