Ware Street Baptist Church
Ware Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in LaGrange, GA 30241. It is one of 47 churches in LaGrange, and one of 16 Baptist congregations in the city.
LaGrange, GA, 30241Shares a ministry location with New Beginning Baptist Church.
Ware Street 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 Ware Street Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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 about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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: 40.1%
- Food Insecurity: 34.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.0%
- Diabetes: 18.3%
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Poverty Rate: 24.9% (15.5–34.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
- Child Poverty: 24.6% (8.8–40.3%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (8.1–19.9%)
- Unemployment: 6.9% (2.2–12.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
LaGrange city is served by 47 churches — about one congregation for every 419 residents.
Churches near Ware Street Baptist Church
- New Beginning Baptist Church — 0 mi away in Lagrange, GA
- East La Grange Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Union Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Paul Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Lagrange, GA
- East La Grange Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Warren Temple Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- John Poythress lll / True Holiness Church of God In Jesus Name,Inc. — 0.3 mi away in Lagrange, GA
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Peter Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Paul Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Lagrange, GA
- East La Grange Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away