First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Yazoo City, MS 39194. It is one of 38 churches in Yazoo City, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1926
Yazoo City, MS, 39194Website: http://firstb.org
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. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 73.3%
- Obesity: 55.6%
- Food Insecurity: 48.5%
- Poverty Rate: 46.0% (33.6–58.5%)
- Social Isolation: 41.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.8%
- Diabetes: 24.2%
- Unemployment: 13.9% (5.1–23.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.4% (7.8–23.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Yazoo City city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 650 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Word of Faith Christian Center — 0.1 mi away
- Lintonia Chapel Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Tulane Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Mathew Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Manna House Yazoo City — 0.5 mi away
- Inspired Heights Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away