First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Dawson, GA 39842. It is one of 57 churches in Dawson, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
Part of The Southern Baptist Convention
Dawson, GA, 39842Website: http://firstbaptistdawson.org/
First 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 First Baptist Church
It takes 2.8 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 nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 47.8%
- Poverty Rate: 45.8% (33.6–57.9%)
- Social Isolation: 42.3%
- Food Insecurity: 41.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.8%
- Diabetes: 24.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.1%
- Unemployment: 14.4% (6.1–23.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.7% (13.7–25.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Dawson Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Presbyterian Church of Dawson — 0.2 mi away
- Dawson Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Raines Memorial Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mountain Grove Church — 0.3 mi away
- Restoration Holiness Church inc. — 0.3 mi away
- Word of Faith — 0.4 mi away
- Cathedral of Faith Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Raines Memorial Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Beulahland Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Union Primitive Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Chickasawhatchee Primitive Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away