Okolona First Baptist Church
Okolona First 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, 38860Okolona First 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 Okolona First Baptist Church
It takes 3.6 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 more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.
- Obesity: 46.5%
- Child Poverty: 44.0% (27.7–60.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
- Food Insecurity: 32.3%
- Diabetes: 21.2%
- Social Isolation: 38.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.0%
- Poverty Rate: 29.2% (19.7–38.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (7.4–17.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Okolona First Baptist Church
- North Gatlin Street Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Theresa Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Pisgah United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Okolona First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Theresa's Church Catholic Center — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Okolona Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Union Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Darden Chapel Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Chapel Grove West Missionary Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Clarks Chapel Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
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