Old Fort Baptist Church

Old Fort Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 18 Van Cleve Street in Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742. It is one of 20 churches in Fort Oglethorpe, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.

To make fully devoted followers of christ.

Old Fort Baptist Church is committed to carrying out the work of the body of Christ which is outlined in Ephesians 4:11-12: "And he gave some apostles; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ."

Serving since 2013

18 Van Cleve Street, Fort Oglethorpe, GA, 30742

Service times

  • Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8:30am · - Hours

Phone: (843) 873-2283 · Website: http://www.oldfortbaptist.org/

Old Fort Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,847 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 71,418 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.

Ministries at Old Fort Baptist Church

  • Food Pantry

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The community around Old Fort Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 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%
  • Child Poverty: 26.6% (9.9–44.0%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.8%
  • Diabetes: 13.2%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (6.6–17.3%)
  • Unemployment: 7.2% (2.2–12.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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

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