First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Verona, MS 38801. It is one of 8 churches in Verona, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Verona, MS, 38801Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 8:30am
Shares a ministry location with The Anchor Church.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,483 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 71,418 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
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
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mt. Sinai Baptist Church Tupelo, MS — 1.5 mi away in Tupelo, MS
- South Green Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away in Tupelo, MS
- First Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Tupelo, MS
- Plantersville Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Plantersville, MS
- Lakeview Church — 2.9 mi away in Tupelo, MS
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