First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Fitzgerald, GA 31750. It is one of 73 churches in Fitzgerald, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Fitzgerald, GA, 31750Website: https://sites.google.com/site/fellowshipfitz/home
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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
- Food Insecurity: 28.8%
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Obesity: 41.9%
- Social Isolation: 38.7%
- Poverty Rate: 22.9% (11.6–34.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.4% (12.8–26.0%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.5%
- Child Poverty: 28.2% (13.2–42.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Fitzgerald Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- St Williams Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. William Catholic Church Fitzgerald, GA -Bilingüe — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mathews Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Westside Church — 0.5 mi away
- Zion Rest Primitive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Zion Rest Primitive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- West Side Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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