First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Blakely, GA 39823. It is one of 62 churches in Blakely, and one of 9 Baptist congregations in the city.
Blakely, GA, 39823First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 4.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Child Poverty: 43.0% (25.4–60.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 28.0%
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Obesity: 41.1%
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.2% (11.0–21.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Poverty Rate: 21.7% (13.6–29.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.1%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (2.0–11.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Holy Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Free Will Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mountain Grove Freewill Baptist — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Family Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Wesley Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Westview United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away