Welcome Baptist Church
Welcome Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Americus, GA 31709. It is one of 86 churches in Americus, and one of 13 Baptist congregations in the city.
Americus, GA, 31709Welcome 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.
Find Welcome Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Welcome Baptist Church
It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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.
- Food Insecurity: 28.1%
- Obesity: 40.7%
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.3%
- Poverty Rate: 23.1% (13.2–33.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.5%
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Welcome Baptist Church
- Bible Way Fellowship Center — 1.6 mi away in Leslie, GA
- Bethel Church — 2.2 mi away
- Union Grove Church — 3.1 mi away
- Old Corinth Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Leslie, GA
- Blooming Rose Church — 3.9 mi away
- Mountain Creek A.M.E. Church — 4.1 mi away
- Mount Hope Church — 4.2 mi away
- Salem United Methodist Church — 4.5 mi away
- Shady Grove Church — 5.3 mi away
- Union Oak Grove Church — 5.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Old Corinth Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Leslie, GA
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 6.5 mi away in Byromville, GA
- Spring Creek Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away
- Drayton Baptist Church — 6.9 mi away in Vienna, GA