First African Baptist Church
First African Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 288 E Liberty Ave in Lyons, GA 30436-1533. It is one of 54 churches in Lyons, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
288 E Liberty Ave, Lyons, GA, 30436-1533Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 1pm
Phone: +19125260511 · Website: http://www.firstafricanbc.com/
First African 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 African Baptist Church
It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 41.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.8%
- Food Insecurity: 24.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.3%
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.3%
- Poverty Rate: 20.8% (7.9–33.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (9.0–19.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First African Baptist Church
- St Luke Ame Church — 0.2 mi away
- East Gordon Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Ghost Assembly — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Grace Community Presbyterian Church PCA — 0.6 mi away
- Emmanuel Worship Center — 1 mi away in Swainsboro, GA
- Collins Chapel Primitive Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- New Beginnings Church of God — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- East Gordon Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Collins Chapel Primitive Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Landmark Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away