Shorterville Baptist Church
Shorterville Baptist Church is a church in Fort Gaines, GA. It is one of 28 churches in Fort Gaines.
Fort Gaines, GAWebsite: http://www.sbc.net/church/6643-36373/shorterville-baptist-church
Shorterville 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 Shorterville Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 60.4% (44.1–76.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.0%
- Poverty Rate: 30.1%
- Food Insecurity: 29.9%
- Obesity: 44.3%
- Social Isolation: 39.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.6% (12.1–21.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
- Depression: 26.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Shorterville Baptist Church
- Sylvan Grove United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away in Midland City, AL
- Mount Pleasant Church — 1.6 mi away in Dothan, AL
- Mt Pleasant Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Dothan, AL
- Mount Zion Assembly of God Church — 2.4 mi away in Grimes, AL
- Grimes Church — 2.5 mi away in Dothan, AL
- Grimes United Methodist — 2.6 mi away in Midland City, AL
- Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Midland City, AL
- Greater Bethlaham Missionary Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Midland City, AL
- Midland City Methodist — 3.1 mi away in Midland City, AL
- Sanctuary Of Praise Ministries — 3.1 mi away in Midland City, AL
More Baptist churches nearby
- Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Midland City, AL
- Midland City Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Midland City, AL
- Magnolia Freewill Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away in Midland City, AL
- Corinth Free Will Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Midland City, AL
- Piney Grove Primitive Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away in Headland, AL
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