Furrs Baptist Church
Furrs Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Pontotoc, MS 38863. It is one of 73 churches in Pontotoc, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
Pontotoc, MS, 38863Furrs 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 Furrs Baptist Church
It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on. 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.
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Obesity: 38.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Food Insecurity: 19.5%
- Diabetes: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Furrs Baptist Church
- Zion Church — 1.2 mi away in Tupelo, MS
- Big Hill Methodist Church — 2 mi away in Tupelo, MS
- College Hill Church — 2 mi away
- Resident Church — 2 mi away in Tupelo, MS
- New Resident Church — 2.1 mi away in Tupelo, MS
- Zion Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- New Salem MB Church — 2.5 mi away
- Chapel Grove Holiness Church — 2.8 mi away in Tupelo, MS
- Calvary Church — 3.1 mi away in Tupelo, MS
- Valley Grove Church — 3.3 mi away in Tupelo, MS
More Baptist churches nearby
- Zion Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Chesterville Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Tupelo, MS
- Bissell Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Tupelo, MS
- Longview Church — 4.2 mi away in Tupelo, MS
- Galilean Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Tupelo, MS
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