Merrillville Baptist Church
Merrillville Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Coolidge, GA 31738. It is one of 12 churches in Coolidge.
Coolidge, GA, 31738Merrillville 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.
Find Merrillville Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Merrillville Baptist Church
It takes 3.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 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.
- Social Isolation: 35.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
- Food Insecurity: 20.4%
- Diabetes: 16.4%
- Obesity: 39.6%
- Child Poverty: 26.6% (10.8–42.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 17.4% (9.7–25.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (7.6–15.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Merrillville Baptist Church
- Sweetfield Church — 0.3 mi away
- Big Creek Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Saint George Church — 1.7 mi away
- Big Creek Church — 1.8 mi away
- Centennial Church — 2.5 mi away
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Kennedy Chapel — 3 mi away
- Dillon Road Presbyterian Church — 3.6 mi away
- Mount Calvary Church — 4 mi away
- Patten Holiness Church — 4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Aucilla Missionary Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
- Coolidge Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
- Coolidge Church of God — 4.3 mi away
- Springhill Missionary Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away