Gethsemane Baptist Church
Gethsemane Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Augusta-Richmond County, GA 30901. It is one of 169 churches in Augusta-Richmond County, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gethsemane Baptist Church . . . a brief historyThe Gethsemane Baptist Church was founded on the second Sunday, November 13, 1887 by the Rev. Melvin Daggett.
Serving since 1887 · Part of Ushers Union
Augusta-Richmond County, GA, 30901Service times
- Sunday 10am
Gethsemane 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 — 71,419 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 Gethsemane Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 32.4%
- Poverty Rate: 32.4% (20.7–44.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.9%
- Diabetes: 21.1%
- Social Isolation: 39.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 11.3% (3.2–19.6%)
- Obesity: 38.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (6.7–18.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance) is served by 184 churches — about one congregation for every 1,120 residents.
Churches near Gethsemane Baptist Church
- Beulah Grove Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Augusta, GA
- Second Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Revive Church — 0.3 mi away
- United House of Prayer — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Mt Sinai Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in Augusta, GA
- Full Gospel Church — 0.5 mi away in Augusta, GA
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Williams Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Beulah Grove Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Augusta, GA
- Second Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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