Mount Moriah Church
Mount Moriah Church is a Missionary Baptist church in Pickens, MS 39146. It is one of 19 churches in Pickens, and one of 2 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
Pickens, MS, 39146Mount Moriah Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,482 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 71,352 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 Moriah 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 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 50.9%
- Food Insecurity: 45.8%
- Social Isolation: 45.2%
- Child Poverty: 44.5% (27.5–61.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 42.7% (32.0–53.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.0%
- Diabetes: 22.3%
- Unemployment: 14.1% (5.4–23.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Moriah Church
- Zion City Church — 2.1 mi away
- Mount Sinai Church — 3.4 mi away
- Bethlehem Church — 3.5 mi away
- Saint Marys Church — 3.6 mi away
- Cypress Chapel — 3.7 mi away in Lexington, MS
- Walden Chapel United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away in Goodman, MS
- Main Street Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Goodman, MS
- Georgeville Church — 4.6 mi away
- Newport Church — 4.7 mi away in Lexington, MS
- Pleasant Green Church — 5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Main Street Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Goodman, MS
- Fairview Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 6.2 mi away in Lexington, MS
- Antioch Church — 10.2 mi away in Benton, MS
- St Paul's Church of God In Christ — 10.7 mi away in Lexington, MS
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