First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 400 1st St E in New Augusta, MS 39462. It is one of 6 churches in New Augusta.
400 1st St E, New Augusta, MS, 39462Phone: (601) 964-3500 · Website: https://www.firstbaptistellisville.com/
First 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 6.3 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 45.4%
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.1%
- Food Insecurity: 22.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.5% (12.7–24.3%)
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Child Poverty: 22.0% (3.7–40.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 17.8% (9.4–26.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (0.7–11.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Goodhope Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Disiples Chapel — 0.6 mi away
- Mahned Church — 3.5 mi away
- Calvary Church — 3.9 mi away
- Carter Hill Church — 4 mi away in Beaumont, MS
- Providence Church — 4.1 mi away
- New Life In Christ Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away in Beaumont, MS
- Memorial Church — 6 mi away in Richton, MS
- River Valley Church — 6.2 mi away in Beaumont, MS
- Seminary Church — 6.5 mi away in Beaumont, MS
More Baptist churches nearby
- Memorial Church — 6 mi away in Richton, MS
- Union Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away in Beaumont, MS
- First Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away in Beaumont, MS
- Mt Harmon Baptist Church — 8.6 mi away in Richton, MS
- Indian Springs Baptist Church — 8.9 mi away in Petal, MS
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