Rocky Branch Baptist Church
Rocky Branch Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Norwood, GA 30821. It is one of 22 churches in Norwood, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Norwood, GA, 30821Phone: (706) 465-9980
Rocky Branch Baptist 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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The community around Rocky Branch Baptist Church
It takes 6.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Child Poverty: 50.3% (31.5–69.1%)
- Obesity: 45.4%
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.2%
- Food Insecurity: 31.8%
- Diabetes: 22.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
- Poverty Rate: 27.5% (18.4–36.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.5–11.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Rocky Branch Baptist Church
- Pilgrim Church — 2.4 mi away
- Mill Rock Missionary Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Warrenton, GA
- Andrew Chapel CME Church — 3.4 mi away
- Horeb Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Sparta, GA
- Union Missionary Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Sparta, GA
- New Hope Powelton Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Sparta, GA
- Powelton Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Sparta, GA
- Powelton Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away in Sparta, GA
- Prospect United Methodist Church — 4.9 mi away
- Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away in Warrenton, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mill Rock Missionary Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Warrenton, GA
- Horeb Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Sparta, GA
- Union Missionary Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Sparta, GA
- New Hope Powelton Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Sparta, GA
- Powelton Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Sparta, GA