First Zion Baptist Church
First Zion Baptist Church is a church in Riceboro, GA 31323. It is one of 16 churches in Riceboro.
Riceboro, GA, 31323First Zion 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 Zion Baptist Church
It takes 4.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Unemployment: 12.0% (4.2–19.9%)
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Food Insecurity: 21.0%
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (7.2–18.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Zion Baptist Church
- First African Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Tree of Life Holiness Church — 1 mi away
- Calvary Apostlic Temple — 1.3 mi away
- First African Church — 2.3 mi away
- Screven Fork Church — 2.5 mi away in Midway, GA
- Faith Mission Church — 2.9 mi away in Midway, GA
- Church of Christ In Unity Mission No 1 — 3 mi away in Midway, GA
- Thebes AME Church — 3.1 mi away in Midway, GA
- Gods Divine Healing Temple — 3.1 mi away in Midway, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- First African Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Midway Church — 3.7 mi away in Midway, GA
- Midway First Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Midway, GA
- Midway Congregational Church — 4.4 mi away in Midway, GA
- First Anderson Grove Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away