Blackwood Grove Baptist Church
Blackwood Grove Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Okolona, MS 38860. It is one of 44 churches in Okolona, and one of 15 Baptist congregations in the city.
Okolona, MS, 38860Blackwood Grove 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 Blackwood Grove Baptist Church
It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.4%
- Food Insecurity: 27.8%
- Diabetes: 18.9%
- Obesity: 44.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.7%
- Child Poverty: 24.0% (7.8–40.4%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.3% (11.0–31.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.2–11.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Blackwood Grove Baptist Church
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Nettleton, MS
- Poplar Springs Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away in Shannon, MS
- New Prospect Church — 2.9 mi away in Nettleton, MS
- St. Alban's Anglican Church — 2.9 mi away in Pine Grove Mills, PA
- Greater New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Nettleton, MS
- Black Oak Church — 3.5 mi away
- Pine Grove Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Shannon, MS
- Shannon Church of Jesus Christ — 4 mi away in Shannon, MS
- Eastern Star M B Church — 4.1 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 4.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Nettleton, MS
- Greater New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Nettleton, MS
- Pine Grove Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Shannon, MS
- Shannon Church of Jesus Christ — 4 mi away in Shannon, MS
- South Nettleton Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Nettleton, MS
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