Highland Baptist Church
Highland Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Meridian, MS 39305. It is one of 221 churches in Meridian, and one of 51 Baptist congregations in the city.
Meridian, MS, 39305Service times
- Wednesday 6pm
Phone: (601) 482-0191 · Website: http://www.highlandbaptist.net/
Highland Baptist Church 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 Highland 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about 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: 48.1%
- Food Insecurity: 35.6%
- Poverty Rate: 32.9% (19.5–46.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 20.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.0%
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.3% (9.9–22.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
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 Highland Baptist Church
- Foursquare Church — 0.6 mi away
- Agape Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- Highland United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- 31st Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Highland Assembly of God Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of the Mediator — 0.7 mi away
- Jones Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Central Church of the Nazarene — 0.8 mi away
- Mer Parish United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Pilgrim Hill United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- 31st Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Canaan Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Christian Fellowship Church — 0.9 mi away
- El Bethel Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Life Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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