First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Rolling Fork, MS 39159. It is one of 36 churches in Rolling Fork, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Rolling Fork, MS, 39159First 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 First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 51.0%
- Food Insecurity: 39.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.5%
- Diabetes: 24.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.7%
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.1%
- Child Poverty: 31.7% (16.9–46.4%)
- Poverty Rate: 24.2% (14.2–34.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (9.2–20.8%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (2.0–11.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Rolling Fork city is served by 4 churches — about one congregation for every 518 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Rolling Fork Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Rolling Fork Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Lula MB Church — 0.5 mi away
- Emmanuel Assembly of God Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Hull Church — 0.9 mi away
- Green Chapel — 1.2 mi away
- Shiloh Church — 2.1 mi away
- Egremont Chapel — 2.5 mi away
- Paradise Church — 2.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Andalusia, AL
- First Baptist Church Anguilla — 5.5 mi away in Anguilla, MS
- Christian Light Missionary Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away in Anguilla, MS
- New Baptist Church — 8.1 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 17.9 mi away in Hollandale, MS
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