First Bethesda Church
First Bethesda Church is a Missionary Baptist church in Albany, GA 31721. It is one of 222 churches in Albany, and one of 9 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
A Church on the move for Christ.
Albany, GA, 31721Service times
- Sunday 10am
Website: https://www.firstbethesdaofalbany.org/
First Bethesda Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,867 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 71,872 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 First Bethesda Missionary Baptist Church's YouTube channel: 04.20.25 | 10AM Worship Service (all videos).
The community around First Bethesda Church
It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Food Insecurity: 27.0%
- Diabetes: 20.8%
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 39.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.7%
- Unemployment: 11.2% (4.1–18.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
- Poverty Rate: 18.5% (10.0–27.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.9% (6.6–21.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Bethesda Church
- Second Bethesda Missionary Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Ephesus Church — 2.8 mi away
- Weldon Springs Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Celebration of Praise — 3.7 mi away
- Thomas Memorial Church — 3.7 mi away
- Second Mt. Zion Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Beacon Church — 4.4 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 4.4 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church (demolished) — 4.8 mi away
- New Hope Church — 4.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Second Bethesda Missionary Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Second Mt. Zion Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Beacon Church — 4.4 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 4.4 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church (demolished) — 4.8 mi away