Traveler’s Rest Baptist Church serves the greater Vicksburg area. We offer our church services weekly and streaming if you can’t join us in person. Join us today or check out our website to learn more.
Our location is also the home to Traveler’s Rest Christian Academy, a tuition based program for students from Pre-K to 6th grade. If your little ones need to enroll for the fall semester, please contact us today or visit our enrollment page for more info.
Building History of Travelers Rest Baptist Church
The current location was built by Vicksburg Bowmar Avenue Baptist Church, founded in 1898 in a storefront on Cherry Street. Due to a schism in the church, the congregation split in two, with fundraising starting in 1913 by half of the members to find a new location and construct a new house of worship. A new site was chosen at 713 Bowmar and construction was completed in 1915. Reverand TW Green was the first minister at the new location.
Years later, Vicksburg Bowmar would sell the building to Travelers Rest in the early 2000s. They would move to S. 61, and shortened the name to Bowmar Avenue Baptist Church and later changed it again to Crossway.
The Storehouse Community Food Pantry is now located at Travelers Rest Baptist Church.
If anyone needs food, they must call 601-642-0636 to first request it.
After that, food will be distributed to your vehicle (you do not need to get out of your vehicle and no one can enter the facility).
Food will be distributed on Mondays and Wednesdays between 10am-noon, as well as on Thursdays 5-6pm. They are closed for all Federal Holidays.
No one is permitted to show up at Travelers Rest Baptist Church for food outside of the times listed and they must be in a vehicle. There will be no services outside these hours.
The Travelers Rest Christian Academy is in full swing and in order to protect the students, we request that everyone please adhere to this protocol.
We are the people of God, called together to be the Body of Christ, inspired by the Holy Spirit: To proclaim God’s Will, to love one another, to be instruments of salvation – preaching, teaching, worshipping, caring, sharing, growing and giving service through community outreach.
Learn more about our upcoming events at the link! In addition to weekly services we also have special events which will all be featured on the calendar here. Learn More
BIBLE STUDY
Tuesdays at 6:30pm
Wednesdays at 10am for seniors
SUNDAY SCHOOL at 8:45 am
WORSHIP SERVICE at 10 am
Updated School Hours
Monday-Friday
7:30am-2:30 pm
