Bright Star Baptist Church
Bright Star Baptist Church is a church at 201 N Dr Martin Luther King Jr St in Merigold, MS 38759. It is one of 15 churches in Merigold.
201 N Dr Martin Luther King Jr St, Merigold, MS, 38759Phone: +16627482771 · Website: http://www.bstarofmerigold.org
Bright Star 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 Bright Star Baptist Church
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: 47.6%
- Child Poverty: 42.9% (27.4–58.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 32.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.3%
- Diabetes: 21.4%
- Social Isolation: 37.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.8%
- Poverty Rate: 29.1% (20.4–37.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (7.6–15.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bright Star Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Merigold Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- 1st Baptist Church of Merigold — 0.5 mi away
- Merigold United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Lampton Chapel — 0.8 mi away
- Jerusalem Church — 1.6 mi away in Mound Bayou, MS
- New Morning Star Church — 2 mi away in Cleveland, MS
- St Mark Church of God — 2.2 mi away in Mound Bayou, MS
- Lampton Street Church of Christ — 2.4 mi away in Mound Bayou, MS
- Bright Star Church — 2.5 mi away
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- Renovate Church — 6.2 mi away in Cleveland, MS
- Morrison Chapel Baptist Church — 6.2 mi away in Cleveland, MS
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