Prospect Baptist Church
Prospect Baptist Church is a church in Fitzgerald, GA 31750. It is one of 73 churches in Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald, GA, 31750Prospect 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 Prospect Baptist Church
It takes 4.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. 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.
- Child Poverty: 50.2% (33.8–63.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 28.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.5% (13.4–27.7%)
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 8.1% (1.3–14.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
- Poverty Rate: 20.2% (10.0–30.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Prospect Baptist Church
- Pine Level Church — 2.5 mi away
- Poplar Spring Church — 2.6 mi away
- Friendship Church — 2.6 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Ocilla, GA
- Sturgeon Creek Primitive Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
- Anderson Memorial Church — 4.7 mi away
- Eastside Church — 4.7 mi away
- Frank Church — 4.9 mi away
- Mount Olive Church — 5.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Ocilla, GA
- Sturgeon Creek Primitive Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
- New Providence Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away
- Salem Baptist Church — 6 mi away
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