Smith Street Baptist Church

Smith Street Baptist Church is a church at 340 Reid St in Macon, GA 31201-2920. It is one of 255 churches in Macon.

340 Reid St, Macon, GA, 31201-2920

Phone: +14787423101 · Website: http://www.smithstreetbaptist.org/

Smith 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 Smith Street Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half 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.

  • Child Poverty: 85.2%
  • Food Insecurity: 58.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 56.5% (40.0–72.9%)
  • Obesity: 56.0%
  • Social Isolation: 47.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 46.8%
  • Housing Insecurity: 41.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 35.0%
  • Transportation Barriers: 32.4%
  • Diabetes: 27.4%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.1%
  • Unemployment: 13.8% (1.0–28.6%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (4.1–18.4%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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