First Baptist Church of Longview

First Baptist Church of Longview is a Baptist church in Starkville, MS 39759. It is one of 120 churches in Starkville, and one of 30 Baptist congregations in the city.

Starkville, MS, 39759

Website: http://fbclongview.org

First Baptist Church of Longview 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 Longview

It takes 3.4 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up 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.

  • Social Isolation: 34.4%
  • Child Poverty: 30.3% (15.1–49.1%)
  • Poverty Rate: 28.6% (18.4–38.8%)
  • Obesity: 36.7%
  • Food Insecurity: 18.1%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (6.4–18.9%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.2%
  • Unemployment: 6.4% (1.2–11.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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