Mt Olive Baptist Church
Mt Olive 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, 39307Mt Olive 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 Mt Olive 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 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.
- Child Poverty: 87.9%
- Food Insecurity: 54.7%
- Obesity: 53.4%
- Poverty Rate: 50.3% (36.0–64.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 41.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 38.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 29.7%
- Diabetes: 25.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.9% (6.6–21.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Meridian city is served by 90 churches — about one congregation for every 361 residents.
Churches near Mt Olive Baptist Church
- Grace Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Temple Church — 0.2 mi away
- Breaking Chain Ministry — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sunlight Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Adventista Maranatha — 0.4 mi away
- Arrowood Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- College Park Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sunlight Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Arrowood Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Freedom Rock Christian Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
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