New Prospect Baptist Church
New Prospect Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Meridian, MS 39301. It is one of 221 churches in Meridian, and one of 60 Baptist congregations in the city.
Meridian, MS, 39301New Prospect 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 — 71,417 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 Prospect Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 56.1%
- Obesity: 54.5%
- Poverty Rate: 51.7% (32.8–70.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.9%
- Social Isolation: 42.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 40.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 30.1%
- Diabetes: 26.6%
- Unemployment: 12.9% (6.8–20.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (5.3–23.0%)
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 New Prospect Baptist Church
- Congregation Church of God — 0 mi away
- Eighth Avenue Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Haven Chapel United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Eastview Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Paradise Church of God In Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Mount Herman Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lively Stone Fellowship Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pentecostal Church of God — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Eastview Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Mount Herman Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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