First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Elberton, GA 30635. It is one of 84 churches in Elberton, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Elberton, GA, 30635First 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 57.5% (41.9–73.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 32.3% (23.2–41.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.7%
- Food Insecurity: 29.0%
- Diabetes: 19.2%
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Social Isolation: 38.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.5% (9.8–19.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Elberton city is served by 9 churches — about one congregation for every 448 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Unity Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- St Alban's Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Zion Holiness Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt Zion Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Grace UMC Elberton — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Era Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Era Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Believers Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away