1st Baptist Church of Merigold
1st Baptist Church of Merigold is a church at 410 W South St in Merigold, MS 38759-9705. It is one of 15 churches in Merigold.
410 W South St, Merigold, MS, 38759-9705Phone: (662) 748-2043
1st Baptist Church of Merigold is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,483 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 71,419 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 1st Baptist Church of Merigold
It takes 4.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up 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.
- Obesity: 47.3%
- Child Poverty: 41.2% (26.1–56.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 32.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.0%
- Diabetes: 21.2%
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
- Poverty Rate: 28.5% (19.9–37.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (7.5–15.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near 1st Baptist Church of Merigold
- Merigold Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lampton Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Merigold United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bright Star Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Jerusalem Church — 2 mi away in Mound Bayou, MS
- Bright Star Church — 2.3 mi away
- New Morning Star Church — 2.3 mi away in Cleveland, MS
- St Mark Church of God — 2.5 mi away in Mound Bayou, MS
- Pilgrim Rest Church — 2.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Mound Bayou, MS
- New Life Church — 3.9 mi away in Cleveland, MS
- Morrison Chapel Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away in Cleveland, MS
- Morrison Chapel Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away in Cleveland, MS
- Renovate Church — 6 mi away in Cleveland, MS
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