Thankful Baptist Church
Thankful Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 820 Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard in savannah, GA 31415. It is one of 4 churches in savannah, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
820 Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, savannah, GA, 31415Website: http://www.thankfulbaptistsavannah.org
Thankful Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,867 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 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 Thankful Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 79.3%
- Poverty Rate: 43.8% (31.1–56.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 29.9%
- Social Isolation: 39.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.2%
- Unemployment: 9.4% (5.0–14.6%)
- Obesity: 36.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
- Diabetes: 14.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Savannah city is served by 217 churches — about one congregation for every 727 residents.
Churches near Thankful Baptist Church
- Bolton Street Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Connor's Temple Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away in Savannah, GA
- Mount Zion Baptist church — 0.1 mi away in Savannah, GA
- First Saint Peters Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away in Savannah, GA
- Tremont Temple Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away in Savannah, GA
- Saint Philip African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away in Savannah, GA
- Saint Philip Monumental African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away in Savannah, GA
- Gaines Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away in Savannah, GA
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Savannah, GA
- First New Light Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Savannah, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bolton Street Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Connor's Temple Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away in Savannah, GA
- Mount Zion Baptist church — 0.1 mi away in Savannah, GA
- First Saint Peters Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away in Savannah, GA
- Tremont Temple Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away in Savannah, GA