Lee Street Baptist Church
Lee Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Americus, GA 31709. It is one of 86 churches in Americus, and one of 16 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1990
Americus, GA, 31709Phone: (336) 717-1135
Lee Street Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,847 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 71,417 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 Lee Street Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 38.1%
- Poverty Rate: 27.1% (16.8–37.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 24.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.0% (11.0–23.1%)
- Diabetes: 15.7%
- Unemployment: 9.5% (4.2–14.8%)
- Obesity: 39.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Americus city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 106 residents.
Churches near Lee Street Baptist Church
- Baptist Student Center — 0.3 mi away
- Pilgrim Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
- Americus Mennonite Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- Victory Worship Center — 0.5 mi away
- Central Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Amazing Grace Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Believe Covenant Deliverance Ministries, Inc — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Baptist Student Center — 0.3 mi away
- Amazing Grace Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Bethesda Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away