East Morton Baptist Church
East Morton Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Morton, MS 39117. It is one of 44 churches in Morton, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Morton, MS, 39117East Morton 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 East Morton Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 34.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
- Poverty Rate: 30.6% (15.5–45.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.8%
- Diabetes: 18.3%
- Obesity: 43.8%
- Social Isolation: 38.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.9% (6.4–29.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Morton city is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 406 residents.
Churches near East Morton Baptist Church
- First United Church — 0.2 mi away
- Morton United Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Church — 0.9 mi away
- North Morton Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- LifeSpring Church — 1.7 mi away
- Concord Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Church of the King — 2.2 mi away
- Holy Hill Church — 2.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- North Morton Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest MBC — 2.9 mi away
- Parkway Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Pulaski Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away
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