First Union Baptist Church
First Union 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, 39307First Union 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 — 71,418 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 Union 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. More than 4 in 5 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: 87.9%
- Obesity: 52.3%
- Food Insecurity: 48.5%
- Poverty Rate: 41.7% (24.6–58.7%)
- Social Isolation: 40.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.3%
- Diabetes: 25.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (4.4–19.0%)
- Unemployment: 7.0% (1.6–13.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 First Union Baptist Church
- St. James AME Church — 0.1 mi away
- Liberty Church of Mer — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fifth Street United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fitkins Memorial Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Bethel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Temple Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia Adventista Maranatha — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Bethel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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