First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Verona, MS 38801. It is one of 8 churches in Verona.
Verona, MS, 38801Shares a ministry location with The Anchor Church.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than 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.
- Child Poverty: 44.5% (29.4–59.5%)
- Social Isolation: 42.0%
- Food Insecurity: 33.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.6%
- Diabetes: 18.9%
- Obesity: 44.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
- Poverty Rate: 25.0% (16.4–33.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.6% (10.6–22.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Verona city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 656 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- The Anchor Church — 0 mi away
- Verona United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Chandler Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- Second Baptist M.B. Church Verona — 0.3 mi away
- Tabernacle of Faith — 0.6 mi away in Tupelo, MS
- Verona Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away
- Verona Church — 1 mi away
- Restoration Worship Center — 1.4 mi away in Tupelo, MS
- Mt. Sinai Baptist Church Tupelo, MS — 1.5 mi away in Tupelo, MS