First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Waveland, MS 39576. It is one of 15 churches in Waveland, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Waveland, MS, 39576First 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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 40.8%
- Social Isolation: 33.7%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.2%
- Food Insecurity: 20.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.0%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Waveland city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 901 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Waveland United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Clare Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mt Chapel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Harvest Church & Biblical Foundations Institute — 0.9 mi away in Bay St Louis, MS
- First United Pentecostal Church — 0.9 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.9 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.9 mi away
- Compassion and Power Restoration Ministries — 1 mi away
- Word of Faith Christian Fellowship — 1.1 mi away