First Baptist Church of Sledge
First Baptist Church of Sledge is a Baptist church in Sledge, MS 38670. It is one of 2 churches in Sledge.
Sledge, MS, 38670First Baptist Church of Sledge 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 of Sledge
It takes 6.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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.
- Child Poverty: 53.9% (36.6–71.3%)
- Obesity: 49.8%
- Food Insecurity: 36.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.7%
- Diabetes: 22.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.0%
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.5%
- Poverty Rate: 29.5% (18.2–40.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.4% (8.9–20.0%)
- Unemployment: 7.6% (2.6–14.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Sledge
- Mountain Movers C.O.G.I.C. — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Olive Church — 0.5 mi away
- Phillips Chapel — 0.8 mi away in Crenshaw, MS
- James Church — 1.6 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 1.8 mi away
- Macedonia Church — 2.2 mi away
- Fairview Church — 3.2 mi away in Crenshaw, MS
- Springhill Church — 3.2 mi away in Crenshaw, MS
- Crenshaw Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Crenshaw, MS
- Easley Church — 3.5 mi away in Crenshaw, MS
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