Lanier Heights Baptist Church
Lanier Heights Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 4205 Ocmulgee East Boulevard in Macon, GA 31217. It is one of 255 churches in Macon, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
4205 Ocmulgee East Boulevard, Macon, GA, 31217Lanier Heights 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.
Find Lanier Heights Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Lanier Heights Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 48.5%
- Child Poverty: 43.1% (23.1–63.1%)
- Social Isolation: 42.8%
- Food Insecurity: 33.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.3%
- Diabetes: 20.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.5% (10.0–21.0%)
- Unemployment: 9.4% (4.0–14.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 19.9% (9.9–29.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Macon-Bibb County is served by 118 churches — about one congregation for every 1,326 residents.
Churches near Lanier Heights Baptist Church
- Wheeler Heights Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Greater Overcoming Faith Ministries — 2 mi away in Dry Branch, GA
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church Lakeside — 2 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA
- Church of Christ At E Macon — 2 mi away
- Morningside Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Swift Creek United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA
- Swift Creek Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA
- Union Chapel Evangelistic Church — 2.4 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA
- Faith Church — 2.5 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA
- Ocmulgee Church — 2.6 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Wheeler Heights Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church Lakeside — 2 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA
- Morningside Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Swift Creek Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Macon-Bibb County, GA
- Faith Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away