First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 301 West Main Avenue North in Mound Bayou, MS 38762. It is one of 17 churches in Mound Bayou.
301 West Main Avenue North, Mound Bayou, MS, 38762First 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 — 71,418 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 First Baptist Church
It takes 4.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than 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.
- Child Poverty: 58.4% (40.0–76.8%)
- Obesity: 50.1%
- Food Insecurity: 37.0%
- Poverty Rate: 35.6% (25.8–45.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.0%
- Diabetes: 23.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.1%
- Social Isolation: 38.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (8.2–15.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Bethel A M E Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Olive M. B. Church — 0.2 mi away
- Walk of Faith Covenant Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lampton Street Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- St Mark Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- Jerusalem Church — 1.2 mi away
- Pilgrims Rest Church — 1.7 mi away
- Zion Church — 2.6 mi away
- Wander Home Church — 2.6 mi away
- Bright Star Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Merigold, MS
More Baptist churches nearby
- Shiloh M.B. Church — 4.6 mi away in Shelby, MS
- St. Andrew M.B. Church — 4.8 mi away in Shelby, MS
- New Life Church — 7 mi away in Cleveland, MS
- Morrison Chapel Baptist Church — 8.6 mi away in Cleveland, MS
- Morrison Chapel Baptist Church — 8.7 mi away in Cleveland, MS
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