Forest Avenue Baptist Church
Forest Avenue Baptist Church is a church at 1120 Forest Ave in Jackson, AL 36545-2928. It is one of 22 churches in Jackson.
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1120 Forest Ave, Jackson, AL, 36545-2928Phone: +12512463541 · Website: http://www.fabcjackson.com/
Forest Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
Ministries at Forest Avenue Baptist Church
- Food Pantry
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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