New Canaan Baptist Church
New Canaan 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, 39307Website: http://www.churchfinder.com/churches/ms/meridian/new-canaana-baptist-church
New Canaan 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 New Canaan 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 more than 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: 49.8%
- Food Insecurity: 43.8%
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.0%
- Poverty Rate: 33.3% (20.7–45.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 31.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.4%
- Diabetes: 21.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.9%
- Child Poverty: 31.6% (13.9–49.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (6.3–19.1%)
- Unemployment: 6.7% (2.0–12.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Meridian city is served by 90 churches — about one congregation for every 361 residents.
Churches near New Canaan Baptist Church
- Pilgrim Hill United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Mer Parish United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Christian Fellowship Church — 0.1 mi away
- Life Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- El Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jones Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Meridian Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Druid Hills United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Tabernacle of Meridian — 0.6 mi away
- Highland Assembly of God Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Christian Fellowship Church — 0.1 mi away
- Life Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- El Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Meridian Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Highland Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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