Union Grove Church
Union Grove Church is a Missionary Baptist church in Richton, MS. It is one of 43 churches in Richton.
Richton, MSUnion Grove 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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Latest from Union Grove Church's YouTube channel: Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church Service 10/18/2026 (all videos).
The community around Union Grove Church
It takes 7.2 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: 34.3%
- Obesity: 39.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.9%
- Poverty Rate: 18.1% (7.9–28.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 15.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.1% (6.2–22.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Union Grove Church
- Avera Church — 1.1 mi away
- Mutual Rights Church — 1.6 mi away in Leakesville, MS
- Zion Rest Church — 4.9 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 6 mi away
- Sandhill United Methodist Church — 6.1 mi away in Sand Hill, MS
- Pleasant Hill Church — 6.1 mi away
- Lovewell Church — 7.1 mi away
- Nazareth Church — 7.7 mi away
- New Lovewell Church — 7.8 mi away
- Union Grove Church — 8.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Brewer Baptist Church — 8.8 mi away
- West Salem Baptist Church — 8.9 mi away
- Neely Baptist Church — 9.7 mi away
- Fellowship Freewill Baptist Church — 9.8 mi away in State Line, MS
- Eastside Baptist Church — 10.8 mi away
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