Mount Olive Baptist Church
Mount Olive 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, 39823Mount Olive 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 Mount Olive Baptist Church
It takes 4.5 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 more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 40.4% (22.8–58.0%)
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Food Insecurity: 28.3%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Obesity: 41.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.7% (11.5–21.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
- Poverty Rate: 21.5% (13.3–29.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.3%
- Unemployment: 7.5% (2.3–12.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Olive Baptist Church
- Wesley Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Family Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Mountain Grove Freewill Baptist — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Holy Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Westview United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Free Will Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Enterprise Free Will Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away