Higher Ground Empowerment Center
Higher Ground Empowerment Center is a church at 561 Spencer St NW in Atlanta, GA 30314-4666. It is one of 940 churches in Atlanta.
Part of Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship
561 Spencer St NW, Atlanta, GA, 30314-4666Phone: (404) 736-6311 · Website: https://www.hgec.org/
Higher Ground Empowerment Center 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 Higher Ground Empowerment Center
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Social Isolation: 43.9%
- Food Insecurity: 43.4%
- Poverty Rate: 36.0% (22.8–49.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 34.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.0%
- Diabetes: 18.2%
- Obesity: 41.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.8% (10.1–25.5%)
- Unemployment: 7.9% (1.4–14.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
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