Mount Gilead Primitive Baptist Church
Mount Gilead Primitive Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Smithdale, MS 39664. It is one of 21 churches in Smithdale, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Smithdale, MS, 39664Mount Gilead Primitive 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 Mount Gilead Primitive Baptist Church
It takes 5.2 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 45.4% (26.6–64.1%)
- Poverty Rate: 30.9% (19.0–42.7%)
- Obesity: 41.8%
- Social Isolation: 34.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.0%
- Food Insecurity: 23.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.3% (11.0–25.6%)
- Diabetes: 17.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Gilead Primitive Baptist Church
- Concord Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Temble Hill Church — 2.6 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Ebenezer Church — 3.2 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Church — 3.5 mi away
- Adams Church — 4 mi away in Summit, MS
- Oak Grove Primitive Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Smithdale Church of God In Christ — 5.2 mi away
- McCall Church — 5.2 mi away
- Ramah Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Concord Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Oak Grove Primitive Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Ramah Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away
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