Elam Primitive Baptist Church
Elam Primitive Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Nicholls, GA 31554. It is one of 25 churches in Nicholls, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Nicholls, GA, 31554Elam Primitive 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 Elam Primitive Baptist Church
It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 36.5%
- Poverty Rate: 33.9% (20.9–46.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.3% (13.5–29.0%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.0%
- Obesity: 44.3%
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.1%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Child Poverty: 28.7% (13.5–43.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Elam Primitive Baptist Church
- St James Ame Church — 2.2 mi away
- The Harvest Church — 2.3 mi away
- Nicholls Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Popular Spring Baptist Church, Nicholls, GA — 2.6 mi away
- Wesley Chapel Southern Congregational Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Douglas Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Dry Creek Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
- Saginaw Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
- Grace Chapel — 4.6 mi away
- Saginaw Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away in Coffee County, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Nicholls Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Douglas Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Dry Creek Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
- Saginaw Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
- Friendship Missionary Baptist Church — 7.2 mi away in Alma, GA