Bethel Missionary Baptist Church
Bethel Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 30am.1766 MS HWY, MS, 39759 in Starkville, MS 39759. It is one of 97 churches in Starkville, and one of 37 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to help every person know, follow, and glorify Jesus Christ in all areas of life.
Beth-el Missionary Baptist Church is located in Starkville, Mississippi. It is the largest African-American church in the area and was founded in the Leak Creek community in 1880.
Serving since 1880 · Wheelchair accessible
30am.1766 MS HWY, MS, 39759, Starkville, MS, 39759Service times
- Sunday 9:45am
Phone: (662) 324-0071 · Website: https://beth-elmbc.org/
Bethel Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,483 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 71,350 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 Beth-el M.B. Church's YouTube channel: Beth-el Sunday Service 9:45am 11/1/2026 (all videos).
The community around Bethel Missionary Baptist Church
It takes 2.6 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 nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 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.
- Social Isolation: 35.3%
- Poverty Rate: 25.6% (15.7–35.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.8%
- Obesity: 37.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (6.7–18.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.5%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (2.0–11.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethel Missionary Baptist Church
- Adaton Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Adaton United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Adaton Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Josey Creek Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Church — 3.2 mi away
- Union Hill Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 4 mi away
- New Light United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away
- Robinson Missionary Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Adaton Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Adaton Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Josey Creek Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Union Hill Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 4 mi away
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