First African Baptist Church
First African Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 1709 Barrington Ferry Rd in Riceboro, GA 31323. It is one of 16 churches in Riceboro, and one of 3 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1809
1709 Barrington Ferry Rd, Riceboro, GA, 31323Service times
- Sunday 10am
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 6.3 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 26.4%
- Obesity: 40.4%
- Social Isolation: 39.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.4%
- Diabetes: 17.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
- Poverty Rate: 20.5% (9.5–31.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (6.5–19.8%)
- Unemployment: 7.5% (1.1–14.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First African Baptist Church
- Saint James Church — 0.4 mi away
- The New Testament House of Prayer — 1.7 mi away
- First African Church — 4.8 mi away
- Youngs Island Community Church of God — 5.3 mi away
- South Newport Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away in Townsend, GA
- Smallest Church in America — 5.9 mi away in Townsend, GA
- South Newport Church — 6 mi away in Townsend, GA
- Ways Temple — 6.1 mi away
- First Anderson Grove Baptist Church — 6.1 mi away
- Tree of Life Holiness Church — 6.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- South Newport Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away in Townsend, GA
- First Anderson Grove Baptist Church — 6.1 mi away
- First Anderson Grove Baptist — 6.6 mi away
- First African Baptist Church — 7 mi away
- First Zion Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away