St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church
St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church is a church in Fort Gaines, GA 39851. It is one of 28 churches in Fort Gaines.
Fort Gaines, GA, 39851St. Luke Missionary 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 St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church
It takes 6.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 28.3%
- Diabetes: 20.9%
- Obesity: 42.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.0%
- Poverty Rate: 22.9% (13.5–32.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.5%
- Child Poverty: 24.1% (6.9–41.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.4%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (1.1–12.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church
- Wesley Chapel — 2.5 mi away
- Ebenezer AME Church — 2.9 mi away
- Mount Calvary Church — 3.3 mi away
- Green Chapel — 3.4 mi away
- Mitchel Grove Church — 3.7 mi away
- Union AME Church — 4 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Bluffton, GA
- Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
- New Judson Church — 4.1 mi away
- Antioch Church — 4.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Friendship Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Bluffton, GA
- Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
- Bluffton Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Bluffton, GA
- Thompson Grove Baptist Church — 5 mi away
- Vilulah Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away
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