Missionary Baptist

Missionary Baptist is a Baptist church in Starkville, MS 39759. It is one of 120 churches in Starkville, and one of 38 Baptist congregations in the city.

Starkville, MS, 39759

Shares a ministry location with Christian Faith MB Church.

Missionary Baptist is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,484 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 71,419 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 Missionary Baptist

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Poverty Rate: 35.6% (23.2–48.1%)
  • Social Isolation: 35.6%
  • Child Poverty: 23.4% (6.4–40.4%)
  • Food Insecurity: 19.5%
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.0%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%
  • Unemployment: 6.9% (0.0–14.5%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Starkville city is served by 24 churches — about one congregation for every 666 residents.

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