Jackson Avenue Baptist Church
Jackson Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Pascagoula, MS 39567. It is one of 59 churches in Pascagoula, and one of 15 Baptist congregations in the city.
Pascagoula, MS, 39567Jackson Avenue 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 — 71,417 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 Jackson Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 48.2%
- Poverty Rate: 37.7% (22.0–53.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 31.5%
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Unemployment: 12.6% (0.0–26.6%)
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Pascagoula city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 532 residents.
Churches near Jackson Avenue Baptist Church
- Saint Mark United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- One Accord Family Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Asbury Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
- Gethsemane Institutional COGIC — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Mary Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- The Greater Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Old Land Mark Church — 0.6 mi away
- Arlington Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Greater Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Arlington Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Woodlawn Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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