Lavonia First Baptist Church
Lavonia First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 5681 Vickery Street in Lavonia, GA 30553. It is one of 22 churches in Lavonia, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Inviting everyone into the journey of multiplying real followers of Jesus.
The vision of The Journey FBC Lavonia is to create a community of authentic believers and to witness a city transformed by the life changing reality of the gospel, as people come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
5681 Vickery Street, Lavonia, GA, 30553Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8am
Phone: (706) 356-4243 · Website: http://thejourneylavonia.church/
Lavonia First 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 — 71,420 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 Lavonia First Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 44.4% (28.6–60.2%)
- Poverty Rate: 30.2% (21.1–39.2%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.7% (14.9–26.5%)
- Obesity: 41.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Food Insecurity: 22.0%
- Diabetes: 16.7%
- Unemployment: 8.9% (2.5–15.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Lavonia First Baptist Church
- Lavonia Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lavonia United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fairview Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Lavonia Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Encounter Church-Lavonia — 1.5 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Church — 1.6 mi away
- Holy Calvary MRF — 2.1 mi away
- New Hope Church — 2.2 mi away in Canon, GA
- Willis Chapel — 2.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Fairview Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Martin, GA
- Calvary Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Bowersville, GA
- Poplar Springs Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away
- Full Gospel Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away in Martin, GA