Gillsburg Baptist Church
Gillsburg Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Osyka, MS 39657. It is one of 10 churches in Osyka, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Osyka, MS, 39657Gillsburg 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 Gillsburg Baptist Church
It takes 6.4 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: 54.7% (36.4–73.0%)
- Obesity: 46.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.8%
- Poverty Rate: 33.1% (20.5–45.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 32.1%
- Diabetes: 22.5%
- Unemployment: 15.7% (5.6–25.8%)
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Gillsburg Baptist Church
- Jerusalem Church — 3.1 mi away in Magnolia, MS
- Red Bluff Church — 3.2 mi away in Greensburg, LA
- New Zion Church — 4.5 mi away in Liberty, MS
- Tickfaw Church — 5.1 mi away in Liberty, MS
- Pilgrim Rest Church — 5.2 mi away in Magnolia, MS
- Terrys Creek Church — 5.8 mi away
- Mount Vernon Church — 6 mi away in Liberty, MS
- Pine Grove Church — 6.3 mi away in Kentwood, LA
- Spring Creek Church — 6.4 mi away in Kentwood, LA
- Line Creek Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away in Kentwood, LA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Line Creek Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away in Kentwood, LA
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 7.3 mi away in Liberty, MS
- Terry Creek Baptist Church — 8 mi away in Magnolia, MS
- Robinson Baptist Church — 8.1 mi away in Liberty, MS
- Glading Baptist Church — 8.2 mi away in Magnolia, MS