First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 301 SW Main Ave in Merigold, MS 38762-8755. It is one of 5 churches in Merigold.
301 SW Main Ave, Merigold, MS, 38762-8755Phone: +16627412469 · Website: http://www.yellowpages.com/mound-bayou-ms/first-baptist-church
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First 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: 47.5%
- Child Poverty: 42.6% (27.2–58.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 32.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.2%
- Diabetes: 21.4%
- Social Isolation: 37.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
- Poverty Rate: 29.0% (20.3–37.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (7.6–15.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Merigold Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- 1st Baptist Church of Merigold — 0.3 mi away
- Bright Star Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lampton Chapel — 0.5 mi away
- Merigold United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Jerusalem Church — 1.7 mi away
- St Mark Church of God — 2.2 mi away in Mound Bayou, MS
- Bright Star Church — 2.3 mi away
- New Morning Star Church — 2.3 mi away
- Lampton Street Church of Christ — 2.5 mi away in Mound Bayou, MS