First Shiloh Baptist Church
First Shiloh Baptist Church is a church at 478 Walnut St SE in Dawson, GA 39842-2035. It is one of 57 churches in Dawson.
478 Walnut St SE, Dawson, GA, 39842-2035Phone: +12299956188 · Website: http://www.shilohbaptistchurch.net
Shares a ministry location with Saint James Church.
First Shiloh 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 Shiloh 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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third 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: 47.5%
- Poverty Rate: 44.4% (32.5–56.4%)
- Social Isolation: 42.1%
- Food Insecurity: 41.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.2%
- Diabetes: 24.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.6%
- Unemployment: 13.5% (5.5–21.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.9% (12.9–24.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Shiloh Baptist Church
- Saint James Church — 0 mi away
- Union Primitive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Dawson Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Presbyterian Church of Dawson — 0.5 mi away
- Dawson Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit — 0.6 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- ATOC AME Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Primitive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Raines Memorial Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Beulahland Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Chickasawhatchee Primitive Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away