Mount Vernon Baptist Church
Mount Vernon Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Petal, MS 39465. It is one of 47 churches in Petal, and one of 15 Baptist congregations in the city.
Petal, MS, 39465Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 34.7%
- Child Poverty: 27.3% (14.3–40.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.5%
- Food Insecurity: 18.9%
- Poverty Rate: 16.0% (8.5–23.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Petal city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 483 residents.
Churches near Mount Vernon Baptist Church
- East Pine Church — 0.3 mi away
- Petal First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Crestview Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Petal Spiritual Life Center — 0.9 mi away
- Summit Church — 1.2 mi away
- Celebrate Recovery Abundant Faith Church Petal — 1.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Greens Creek Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Rock Hill Baptist Church Mt. Olive, Miss. 39119 — 1.5 mi away in Mt Olive, MS
- Dominion and Power Family Life — 1.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Petal First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Crestview Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Greens Creek Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Rock Hill Baptist Church Mt. Olive, Miss. 39119 — 1.5 mi away in Mt Olive, MS