Mount Vernon Baptist Church

Mount Vernon Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Meridian, MS 39307. It is one of 221 churches in Meridian, and one of 51 Baptist congregations in the city.

Meridian, MS, 39307

Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon Baptist Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 2 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: 51.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 50.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 48.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.9%
  • Housing Insecurity: 35.1%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.1%
  • Transportation Barriers: 26.6%
  • Diabetes: 23.0%
  • Social Isolation: 39.7%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.4%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.7%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (5.3–18.8%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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