Mount Gilead Baptist Church
Mount Gilead Baptist Church is a church in Dearing, GA 30808. It is one of 16 churches in Dearing.
Dearing, GA, 30808Mount Gilead 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 Mount Gilead 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 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 26.9%
- Diabetes: 18.6%
- Obesity: 41.3%
- Social Isolation: 38.9%
- Child Poverty: 34.2% (15.1–53.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
- Poverty Rate: 22.9% (12.0–33.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.9% (8.3–21.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Gilead Baptist Church
- United Church Of Jesus Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Beyond The Veil Fellowship Ministry — 0.5 mi away
- United House of Prayer for All People — 1.2 mi away
- Boneville United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Salem United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Dearing Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Dearing Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Mt. Aldred CME Church — 2.7 mi away in Thomson, GA
- Iron Hill Advent Christian Church — 2.9 mi away
- Dearing Church of God — 3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Beyond The Veil Fellowship Ministry — 0.5 mi away
- Dearing Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Mt. Aldred CME Church — 2.7 mi away in Thomson, GA
- Sweetwater Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Thomson, GA
- Faith Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away in Thomson, GA