Mount Bethel Baptist Church
Mount Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Petal, MS 39465. It is one of 47 churches in Petal, and one of 13 Baptist congregations in the city.
Petal, MS, 39465Mount Bethel 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 Bethel Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 25.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
- Obesity: 37.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Child Poverty: 25.8% (11.0–40.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 18.6% (8.8–28.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.5%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.7% (6.8–20.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.5%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (2.0–11.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Petal city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 483 residents.
Churches near Mount Bethel Baptist Church
- Dominion and Power Family Life Center — 0.3 mi away
- Petal United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Petal-Harvey Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Arise PHBC — 0.5 mi away
- Petal Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church of Petal — 0.6 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethel Assembly of God Church — 0.7 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Hattiesburg, MS
- City Assembly — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Petal-Harvey Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church of Petal — 0.6 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Hattiesburg, MS
- Woodlawn Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away