First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 313 West Main Street, Claxton, GA, 30417 in Claxton, GA 30417. It is one of 18 churches in Claxton, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is that of Christ Jesus; to welcome and love all who seek a relationship with God, to serve our neighbor, to love the stranger, to offer grace without reproach, and to grow in God together.
313 West Main Street, Claxton, GA, 30417, Claxton, GA, 30417Website: http://www.firstbaptistclaxton.com/
First 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 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Obesity: 42.5%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Child Poverty: 32.7% (17.3–48.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
- Food Insecurity: 24.9%
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.8% (11.0–22.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 20.5% (13.8–27.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Claxton First United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Claxton Primitive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First African Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rehoboth Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Thomas Grove African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- United House of Prayer For All People — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- GraceTruth Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Eastside Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away