First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baxley, GA 31513. It is one of 79 churches in Baxley, and one of 29 Baptist congregations in the city.
Baxley, GA, 31513Website: http://first-african-baptist-church-baxley-usa.placestars.com/
First 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 First Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 26.6%
- Obesity: 41.2%
- Social Isolation: 37.7%
- Child Poverty: 34.5% (16.2–52.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.9%
- Poverty Rate: 23.8% (12.0–35.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.9%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.9% (8.8–24.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.4%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (0.4–15.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Baxley city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 159 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- The Rooftop Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Baxley Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Life Cathedral Mission — 0.3 mi away
- Dunn Memorial Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint James African Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Christopher Roman Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Church of God of Prophecy — 0.5 mi away
- Harpers Chapel — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Dunn Memorial Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Jersey Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Temple — 0.7 mi away
- Baxley Freewill Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Woodlawn Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away