First Baptist Church of Ray City
First Baptist Church of Ray City is a Baptist church at 457 Pauline Ave in Ray City, GA 31645. It is one of 6 churches in Ray City.
457 Pauline Ave, Ray City, GA, 31645Service times
- Sunday 9:45am · School
Phone: (229) 455-4021 · Website: https://fbcraycity.org/
First Baptist Church of Ray City is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,848 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 71,350 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church of Ray City
- Children's Ministry
- Vacation Bible School
- Upwards Program
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Upcoming events at First Baptist Church of Ray City
- Sat, Nov 7 · 9 AM: O.C.: Upward Kids Soccer & Celebration
- Sat, Nov 7 · 6 PM: O.C.: Upward Kids Soccer Celebration
- Sun, Nov 8 · 12:30 PM: Social Hall: Senior Adult Harvest Banquet
- Wed, Nov 11 · 7 PM: Social Hall: 2026 Budget Discussion before Adult Bible Study
- Fri, Nov 13 · 4:30 PM: Youth Bowling Night @ MOOAF Bowling Center (Moody AFB)
From First Baptist Church of Ray City's public calendar (https://fbcraycity.org/). Times are the church's local time.
The community around First Baptist Church of Ray City
It takes 3.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Child Poverty: 38.6% (20.9–56.5%)
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Poverty Rate: 25.2% (14.5–35.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.6%
- Obesity: 38.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.3%
- Depression: 23.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (8.1–18.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Ray City
- Ray City Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Azalea City-Ray City Campus Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Ray City United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ray City United Methodist — 0.6 mi away
- Holiness Church — 1.5 mi away
- Silver Hill Church — 2.7 mi away in Lakeland, GA
- Saint John Missionary Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Valdosta, GA
- Knight Memorial Church — 4.3 mi away in Lakeland, GA
- Kings Chapel — 5 mi away in Hahira, GA
- Irene Church — 5.4 mi away in Lakeland, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint John Missionary Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Valdosta, GA
- Empire Primitive Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away in Lakeland, GA
- Pearl Todd Baptist Church — 6.1 mi away in Hahira, GA
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 6.3 mi away in Valdosta, GA
- Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church — 7.6 mi away in Hahira, GA