First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gainesville, GA 30501. It is one of 181 churches in Gainesville, and one of 18 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gainesville, GA, 30501First 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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.
- Social Isolation: 42.9%
- Food Insecurity: 42.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 34.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 33.7% (23.7–43.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 31.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.9%
- Obesity: 40.2%
- Child Poverty: 38.1% (20.0–56.2%)
- Poverty Rate: 29.1% (16.3–41.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.4%
- Diabetes: 17.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Gainesville city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 1,937 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt Calvary Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Midtown Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- First Congregational Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
- Asbury Chapel — 0.4 mi away
- Gainesville Baptist Mission — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gainesville Baptist Mission — 0.4 mi away
- Harmony Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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