Mount Bethel Baptist Church
Mount Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Meridian, MS 39301. It is one of 169 churches in Meridian, and one of 38 Baptist congregations in the city.
Meridian, MS, 39301Mount Bethel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Mount 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. 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: 49.8%
- Social Isolation: 41.6%
- Poverty Rate: 41.1% (24.4–57.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.8%
- Diabetes: 24.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.9%
- Unemployment: 10.4% (3.0–17.9%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (4.4–18.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Meridian city is served by 90 churches — about one congregation for every 361 residents.
Churches near Mount Bethel Baptist Church
- Greater Calvary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Elizabeth United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. James AME Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Union Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Fifth Street United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Patrick Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Liberty Church of Mer — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Courts of Praise — 0.6 mi away