Forest Avenue Baptist Church
Forest Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1120 Forest Ave in Jackson, AL 36545-2928. It is one of 66 churches in Jackson, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
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1120 Forest Ave, Jackson, AL, 36545-2928Service times
- Sunday 9:45am · School
Phone: (251) 246-3541 · Website: http://www.fabcjackson.com/
Forest Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,551 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 71,418 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.
Ministries at Forest Avenue Baptist Church
- Food Pantry
- Children's Ministry
- Elevate Kids
Find Forest Avenue Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Forest Avenue Baptist Church
It takes 3.4 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 1 in 5 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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: 42.1% (24.7–59.4%)
- Unemployment: 20.4% (11.6–29.2%)
- Diabetes: 18.6%
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.8%
- Food Insecurity: 24.3%
- Poverty Rate: 23.4% (14.9–31.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Forest Avenue Baptist Church
- Jackson Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Marks Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Parish) — 0.5 mi away
- Visitation Catholic Mission — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.9 mi away
- Magnolia Church — 0.9 mi away
- Word Of Truth Fellowship Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Jackson Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Word Of Truth Fellowship Church — 0.9 mi away
- Stave Creek Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away