Salem Baptist Church
Salem 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, 31750Salem 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 Salem Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 63.0%
- Obesity: 45.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Food Insecurity: 39.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.5%
- Poverty Rate: 32.6% (17.4–47.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 27.8%
- Diabetes: 22.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.6% (9.9–21.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Salem Baptist Church
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holiness Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Life Community Church Center — 0.1 mi away
- New Providence Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fitzgerald Trinity Temple Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Living Water Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Holsee Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Shiloh Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Providence Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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