First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Folkston, GA 31537. It is one of 30 churches in Folkston, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Folkston, GA, 31537First 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
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 52.3% (33.2–71.5%)
- Obesity: 45.4%
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.9%
- Food Insecurity: 32.6%
- Diabetes: 21.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.1% (12.9–27.4%)
- Poverty Rate: 28.4% (18.8–38.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 11.7% (2.6–20.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Folkston city is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 350 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Folkston Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Pinckney United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Jerusalem Holiness Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Matthews Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.7 mi away
- St. Francis of Assisi — 0.7 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Matthews Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Camp Pinckney Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Peoples Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Sardis Primitive Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away