Mount Zion Baptist Church

Mount Zion Baptist Church is a church in Hazlehurst, GA 31539. It is one of 51 churches in Hazlehurst.

Hazlehurst, GA, 31539

Mount Zion 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 Mount Zion Baptist Church

It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 45.7% (26.2–65.2%)
  • Poverty Rate: 33.3% (20.8–45.8%)
  • Food Insecurity: 25.0%
  • Obesity: 40.7%
  • Social Isolation: 37.8%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.7%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.8%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.4% (10.6–24.1%)
  • Diabetes: 16.0%
  • Depression: 23.5%
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.4%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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