Grace Baptist Church
Grace Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Darien, GA 31305. It is one of 26 churches in Darien, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
Nestled along Vernon Square in historic Darien, Georgia, one of the original Oglethorpe-planned city squares, stands the proud yet endangered Grace Baptist Church, a vernacular Gothic Revival edifice built circa 1910–1915 that once anchored the spiritual life of the local Gullah Geechee community.
Darien, GA, 31305Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
Phone: (912) 270-4673 · Website: http://gracebaptistbwk.weebly.com/
Grace 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 Grace Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Grace Baptist Church
It takes 4.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
- Food Insecurity: 21.6%
- Obesity: 39.3%
- Child Poverty: 25.3% (9.7–41.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (7.6–16.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Grace Baptist Church
- Darien United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Andrews Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Vernon Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First African Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grant Chapel Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Cyprians Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Vernon Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First African Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Northside Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away