Forest Baptist Church
Forest Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gordo, AL 35466. It is one of 53 churches in Gordo, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1886
Gordo, AL, 35466Service times
- Sunday 10am
- Wednesday 6pm · NightJoin us night
Forest Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,553 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 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 Forest Baptist Church
It takes 7.6 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 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.
- Child Poverty: 66.6%
- Obesity: 50.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
- Food Insecurity: 31.7%
- Poverty Rate: 30.3% (18.1–42.6%)
- Diabetes: 21.4%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.3% (8.1–22.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.6%
- Unemployment: 7.6% (3.3–13.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Forest Baptist Church
- Souls Chapel — 1.7 mi away
- Bethesda Presbyterian Church — 1.8 mi away
- Mount Moriah Church — 2.4 mi away
- Saint Pauls Church — 3.2 mi away in Ralph, AL
- Union Church — 3.9 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Ralph, AL
- Eutaw African Methodist Episcopal Church — 4.6 mi away in Eutaw, AL
- White Oak Presbyterian Church — 4.9 mi away in Eutaw, AL
- Mount Zion Church — 5.2 mi away in Eutaw, AL
- Mount Sinai Methodist Church — 5.6 mi away in Eutaw, AL
More Baptist churches nearby
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Ralph, AL
- New Zion Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 7.6 mi away in Ralph, AL
- Sarepta Baptist Church — 7.8 mi away in Eutaw, AL
- Hopewell Baptist Church — 8.5 mi away in Eutaw, AL