Shining Light Baptist Church
Shining Light Baptist Church is a church at 801 Russell St in Starkville, MS 39759-3464. It is one of 120 churches in Starkville.
801 Russell St, Starkville, MS, 39759-3464Phone: +16626480282 · Website: http://slbcstarkville.org
Shining Light 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 Shining Light Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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: 53.1%
- Social Isolation: 42.6%
- Food Insecurity: 27.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.2%
- Depression: 26.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Shining Light Baptist Church
- Victory Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of Christ Holiness — 0.4 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Chapel of Memories — 0.6 mi away in Mississippi State, MS
- Episcopal Church of the Resurrection — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Starkville Warehouse — 0.8 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
- Starkville Church of God — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Victory Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Starkville Warehouse — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- University Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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