New Prospect Baptist Church
New Prospect 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, 39307Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
- Sunday 9:15am · School
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10am
New Prospect 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.
Ministries at New Prospect Baptist Church
- Youth Ministry
- Children's Ministry
- Adult Bible Study
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The community around New Prospect Baptist Church
It takes 3.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Child Poverty: 87.9%
- Poverty Rate: 32.6% (19.9–45.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 30.8%
- Obesity: 44.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.3%
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (3.7–19.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Prospect Baptist Church
- Sageville Church — 2.2 mi away
- Rest Haven Church — 2.3 mi away
- Poplar Springs Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Enterprise, MS
- Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- R12 Student Ministries — 3.7 mi away
- Jones Chapel Church of God — 3.8 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Church — 3.9 mi away
- Oak Grove Church — 4.1 mi away
- Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away
- The Firehouse Church — 4.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Poplar Springs Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Enterprise, MS
- Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 5 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away
- Goodwater Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away in Enterprise, MS
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