Fishing Creek Baptist Church
Fishing Creek Baptist Church is a church in Lumber City, GA 31549. It is one of 12 churches in Lumber City.
Lumber City, GA, 31549Fishing Creek 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 Fishing Creek Baptist Church
It takes 4.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 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 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: 63.3%
- Obesity: 45.1%
- Food Insecurity: 36.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.1%
- Poverty Rate: 34.5% (21.5–47.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 26.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.8%
- Diabetes: 21.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.9%
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.3% (9.0–21.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Fishing Creek Baptist Church
- Shelton's Chapel Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Green Grove Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Mount Calvary Church — 3.2 mi away in McRae-Helena, GA
- Mimbs Church — 3.7 mi away in McRae-Helena, GA
- Dodge's Chapel — 4.1 mi away
- Saint Matthews Church — 5.4 mi away in Hazlehurst, GA
- Saint James Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 5.4 mi away
- Full Gospel Church of God — 5.4 mi away
- Lumber City United Methodist Church — 5.5 mi away
- Lumber City Church of God — 5.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Green Grove Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Lumber City Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away
- Mount Galilee Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away
- Kirkland Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 6.7 mi away in Hazlehurst, GA
- Spring Hill Baptist Church — 7.5 mi away
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