First African Baptist Church
First African Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Brunswick, GA 31520. It is one of 197 churches in Brunswick, and one of 37 Baptist congregations in the city.
Brunswick, GA, 31520Website: http://firstafricanbc.com/pastor_bio.asp
First African 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 — 71,418 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 African Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 45.3%
- Food Insecurity: 39.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.0% (14.5–29.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.9%
- Diabetes: 21.3%
- Social Isolation: 39.5%
- Poverty Rate: 27.6% (16.8–38.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.9%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (1.9–17.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.3%
- Child Poverty: 25.9% (6.7–45.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Brunswick city is served by 62 churches — about one congregation for every 202 residents.
Churches near First African Baptist Church
- Saint Athanasius Protestant Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Pauls African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faithworks Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- United Methodist Activity Center — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mark's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Bryant Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Unitarian Universalists of Coastal Georgia — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Bryant Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away