Westwood Baptist Church
Westwood Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 00 p.m. Westwood Baptist Church1224 65th Ave. in Meridian, MS 39307. It is one of 221 churches in Meridian, and one of 60 Baptist congregations in the city.
00 p.m. Westwood Baptist Church1224 65th Ave., Meridian, MS, 39307Service times
- Sunday 10am · morning
Phone: (601) 482-3283 · Website: http://www.westwoodmeridian.com/
Westwood 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 — 71,420 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 Westwood 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. 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: 52.3%
- Food Insecurity: 51.0%
- Poverty Rate: 44.8% (32.9–56.7%)
- Social Isolation: 41.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.7%
- Diabetes: 23.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (6.1–19.0%)
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.4–11.9%)
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 Westwood Baptist Church
- College Park United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Abundant Life Tabernacle — 0.4 mi away
- First Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
- GATES of PEARL Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Ourfam Church — 0.5 mi away
- Word & Prayer Worship Center — 0.7 mi away
- Freedom Rock Christian Fellowship — 0.8 mi away
- Mer Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.9 mi away
- Living Hope Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Freedom Rock Christian Fellowship — 0.8 mi away
- Living Hope Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Arrowood Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
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