Mount Canaan Baptist Church
Mount Canaan Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Paris, TX 75460. It is one of 115 churches in Paris, and one of 29 Baptist congregations in the city.
The mission of Mt. Canaan Baptist Church is to minister to the physical and spiritual needs of the community; to teach and preach the Word of God to those who are lost; to encourage those who are saved and, to develop disciples to represent and serve God in this present age.
Mt. Canaan is a caring church that serves the community with the Word, Worship and Youth.
Paris, TX, 75460Phone: (423) 624-4080 · Website: http://mtcanaan.org/
Mount Canaan Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,420 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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Latest from Mount Canaan TV's YouTube channel: "There’s More In My Little " | Pastor Ternae "TJ" Jordan, Jr. | September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Mount Canaan 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 45.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.0%
- Poverty Rate: 33.9% (24.1–43.7%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.9% (14.5–27.3%)
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Child Poverty: 36.5% (19.3–53.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.2%
- Depression: 26.8%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (1.5–11.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Paris city is served by 65 churches — about one congregation for every 306 residents.
Churches near Mount Canaan Baptist Church
- Living Word Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Brookston Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of the Holy Cross — 0.7 mi away
- Central Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios Camino de Luz — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Trumpet Magazine — 0.8 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Graham Street Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Faith Tabernacle Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away