First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Tupelo, MS 38804. It is one of 148 churches in Tupelo, and one of 25 Baptist congregations in the city.
The mission of First Baptist Church is to share the gospel with people and help them become passionate followers of Jesus Christ.
Tupelo, MS, 38804First 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.
Find First Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
Watch
Latest from First Baptist Tupelo's YouTube channel: Morning Worship | August 2, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 44.0% (30.3–57.7%)
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Poverty Rate: 22.3% (14.7–29.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Obesity: 37.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (7.1–19.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Tupelo city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 592 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- All Saints Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Living God — 0.3 mi away
- Gloster Street Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- St Paul United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Springhill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Maranatha Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Agape SDA Church of Tupelo — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Springhill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Willis Heights Primitive Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Rising Star Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
See all churches in Tupelo, MS · All churches in Mississippi