First African Baptist Church
First African Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Brunswick, GA 31520. It is one of 137 churches in Brunswick, and one of 20 Baptist congregations in the city.
Brunswick, GA, 31520Website: http://firstafricanbc.com/pastor_bio.asp
First African Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First African 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 more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 45.3%
- Food Insecurity: 39.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.0% (14.5–29.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.9%
- Diabetes: 21.3%
- Social Isolation: 39.5%
- Poverty Rate: 27.6% (16.8–38.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.9%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (1.9–17.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.3%
- Child Poverty: 25.9% (6.7–45.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Brunswick city is served by 62 churches — about one congregation for every 202 residents.
Churches near First African Baptist Church
- Saint Athanasius Protestant Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Pauls African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faithworks Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- United Methodist Activity Center — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mark's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Bryant Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Unitarian Universalists of Coastal Georgia — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away