Prentiss Baptist Church
Prentiss Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2321 Leaf Avenue in Prentiss, MS, MS 39474.
2321 Leaf Avenue, Prentiss, MS, MS, 39474Prentiss 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 Prentiss Baptist Church
It takes 4.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 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 about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 45.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
- Food Insecurity: 29.6%
- Diabetes: 21.1%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Child Poverty: 38.3% (21.6–55.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
- Poverty Rate: 22.4% (14.3–30.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 8.4% (3.6–13.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (6.4–17.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Prentiss Baptist Church
- Prentiss Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away in Prentiss, MS
- Prentiss United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away in Prentiss, MS
- Greater Sweet Beulah COGIC — 0.3 mi away in Prentiss, MS
- First Born Church of God In Christ — 0.6 mi away in Prentiss, MS
- Word Fellowship Baptist Church — 1 mi away in Prentiss, MS
- Green Grove Church — 1.2 mi away in Prentiss, MS
- Prentiss First Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in Prentiss, MS
- Kingdom Hall Of Jehovah's Witnesses — 1.3 mi away in Prentiss, MS
- Prentiss Church — 1.4 mi away in Prentiss, MS
- Bethany Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Prentiss, MS
More Baptist churches nearby
- Prentiss First Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in Prentiss, MS
- Bethany Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Prentiss, MS
- St. Paul M.B. Church- Silver Creek — 7.8 mi away in Silver Creek, MS
- Santee Baptist Church — 8.2 mi away in Prentiss, MS
- Greens Creek Baptist Church — 9 mi away