First Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church in Goodwater, AL 35072. It is one of 36 churches in Goodwater, and one of 3 Presbyterian congregations in the city.
Goodwater, AL, 35072First Presbyterian Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story. 352 congregations of the Presbyterian family gather across Alabama — 11,342 across the United States on The Church Map.
Presbyterians gave American Christianity much of its backbone: seminaries, catechisms, and shared government by elders rather than by one man, a habit that shaped the country's civic life as much as its churches. They have been among the most persistent builders of colleges, hospitals, and mission agencies this nation has.
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The community around First Presbyterian Church
It takes 5.3 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 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: 50.1% (30.7–69.5%)
- Obesity: 42.9%
- Social Isolation: 34.8%
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
- Depression: 23.4%
- Food Insecurity: 18.7%
- Poverty Rate: 17.9% (8.9–27.0%)
- Unemployment: 7.4% (0.5–14.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Presbyterian Church
- Faith Baptist Church of the Deaf — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Rocky Mountain Church — 2 mi away in Talladega, AL
- Christ Missionary Church — 3.4 mi away
- Marvin Chapel — 4.4 mi away in Talladega, AL
- Hatchett Creek Presbyterian Church — 5.2 mi away
- Hatchett Creek Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away in Talladega, AL
- Hollins Church of Christ — 5.3 mi away
- Liberty Hill Church — 5.4 mi away in Sylacauga, AL
- Welcome Springs Methodist Church — 5.5 mi away in Talladega, AL
More Presbyterian churches nearby
- Hatchett Creek Presbyterian Church — 5.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 8.8 mi away in Sylacauga, AL
- Knollwood Presbyterian Church — 9.6 mi away in Sylacauga, AL
- Hackneyville Presbyterian Church — 13.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 16 mi away in Childersburg, AL