Norwood Baptist Church
Norwood Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 103 Academy Street in Norwood, GA 30821. It is one of 22 churches in Norwood, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
103 Academy Street, Norwood, GA, 30821Phone: (888) 694-6735 · Website: http://www.norwoodbaptist.com/
Norwood 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 Norwood Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Norwood Baptist Church
It takes 6.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 26.0%
- Diabetes: 20.7%
- Obesity: 43.8%
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Child Poverty: 32.2% (14.2–50.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Poverty Rate: 20.3% (12.0–28.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.6%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (2.4–10.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Norwood Baptist Church
- Norwood United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Johns Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gospel Aid Christ Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Walkers Chapel — 0.7 mi away
- Union Spring Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Camak Church — 2.2 mi away
- Prospect United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Lithonia Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Bethel AME Church — 2.6 mi away
- Bethel AME Church - Norwood, GA — 2.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Spring Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Lithonia Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Williams Creek Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Warrenton, GA
- New Providence Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away