Rising Sun Baptist Church
Rising Sun Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Port Gibson, MS 39150. It is one of 32 churches in Port Gibson, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
To be; “A Church With A Passion for God and Compassion for Mankind.”
Port Gibson, MS, 39150Rising Sun 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 Rising Sun Baptist Church
It takes 4.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third 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: 48.8%
- Social Isolation: 40.6%
- Food Insecurity: 36.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.9%
- Diabetes: 20.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.9%
- Unemployment: 13.7% (1.0–26.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.2%
- Poverty Rate: 28.2% (16.7–39.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.6% (10.5–22.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Port Gibson city is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 92 residents.
Churches near Rising Sun Baptist Church
- Second Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christian Chapel Church — 0.5 mi away
- Port Gibson Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Port Gibson — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Peter African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint James Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Port Gibson Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Second Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Port Gibson Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Port Gibson — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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