Prentiss First Baptist Church
Prentiss First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Prentiss, MS 39474. It is one of 27 churches in Prentiss, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Prentiss, MS, 39474Prentiss First 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 First Baptist Church
It takes 4.8 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 about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter 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: 45.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.4%
- Food Insecurity: 29.7%
- Diabetes: 21.3%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Child Poverty: 38.3% (21.6–55.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
- Poverty Rate: 23.6% (15.3–31.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (3.8–13.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (6.5–17.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Prentiss First Baptist Church
- Word Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Prentiss Apostolic Church of The Lord Jesus Christ — 1 mi away
- Prentiss United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Prentiss Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in Prentiss, MS, MS
- First Born Church of God In Christ — 1.3 mi away
- Prentiss Presbyterian Church — 1.3 mi away
- Greater Sweet Beulah COGIC — 1.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall Of Jehovah's Witnesses — 1.6 mi away
- Prentiss Church — 1.8 mi away
- Bethany Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Prentiss Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in Prentiss, MS, MS
- Bethany Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Santee Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away
- Greens Creek Baptist Church — 7.9 mi away
- St. Paul M.B. Church- Silver Creek — 8.8 mi away in Silver Creek, MS
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