Ben James Primitive Baptist Church
Ben James Primitive Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Blackshear, GA 31516. It is one of 46 churches in Blackshear, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Blackshear, GA, 31516Ben James Primitive 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 Ben James Primitive Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.1% (11.3–28.9%)
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
- Food Insecurity: 22.9%
- Diabetes: 17.4%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (3.3–13.9%)
- Obesity: 39.3%
- Poverty Rate: 19.0% (9.7–28.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
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