Greater First Baptist Church
Greater First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Thomasville, AL 36784. It is one of 50 churches in Thomasville, and one of 9 Baptist congregations in the city.
Thomasville, AL, 36784Greater First 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 Greater First Baptist Church
It takes 3.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than 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.
- Diabetes: 18.2%
- Obesity: 44.1%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.0%
- Food Insecurity: 24.8%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (0.4–18.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Poverty Rate: 17.7% (4.4–31.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Thomasville city is served by 7 churches — about one congregation for every 256 residents.
Churches near Greater First Baptist Church
- Thomasville United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Salvation Army — 0.3 mi away
- Thomasville Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Thomasville church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Thomasville Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
- 3 Circle Church Thomasville — 0.7 mi away
- Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Mission — 0.9 mi away
- Thomasville Church of God Christ — 1.1 mi away
- The Thomasville United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Thomasville United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Thomasville Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- 3 Circle Church Thomasville — 0.7 mi away
- The Thomasville United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Pineview Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
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