Mount Union Baptist Church
Mount Union 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, 38860Mount Union 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 Mount Union Baptist Church
It takes 3.3 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 about a third 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.
- Child Poverty: 50.9% (34.2–67.6%)
- Obesity: 46.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.0%
- Food Insecurity: 33.0%
- Poverty Rate: 30.9% (21.5–40.2%)
- Diabetes: 21.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (7.8–17.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Union Baptist Church
- Faith Outreach Church — 1.7 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 1.9 mi away
- Snow Town Church — 2.1 mi away
- West Main Street Church of Christ — 2.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 2.4 mi away
- Okolona Presbyterian Church — 2.4 mi away
- Mount Pisgah United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- St Theresa's Church Catholic Center — 2.4 mi away
- North Gatlin Street Church of Christ — 2.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Okolona First Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Chapel Grove West Missionary Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
- Pine Grove Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Shannon, MS
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