First Baptist Church of Fort Oglethorpe

First Baptist Church of Fort Oglethorpe is a Baptist church at 2645 Lafayette Rd in Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742. It is one of 20 churches in Fort Oglethorpe, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.

We believe that the church is the people of God who have been filled with the Holy Spirit through personal faith in Jesus and have been called to follow Jesus by living for Him, making a difference in the world, and making other disciples.

Part of Northwest Georgia Baptist Association

2645 Lafayette Rd, Fort Oglethorpe, GA, 30742

Service times

  • Sunday 11am · School

Phone: (706) 866-0232 · Website: http://www.fbcfo.org/

First Baptist Church of Fort Oglethorpe is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,847 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 71,417 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 of Fort Oglethorpe

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 36.7%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.5% (9.4–23.7%)
  • Obesity: 36.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%
  • Food Insecurity: 15.4%
  • Diabetes: 13.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Fort Oglethorpe city is served by 10 churches — about one congregation for every 977 residents.

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