Shorter Avenue Baptist Church
Shorter Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Rome, GA 30165. It is one of 198 churches in Rome, and one of 31 Baptist congregations in the city.
Rome, GA, 30165Website: http://www.shorteravenue.org/
Shorter Avenue 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 Shorter Avenue Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is two thousand 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.
- Food Insecurity: 26.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.7% (14.3–29.1%)
- Social Isolation: 39.6%
- Child Poverty: 31.9% (12.4–51.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
- Poverty Rate: 23.0% (13.0–33.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.9%
- Obesity: 39.2%
- Diabetes: 13.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Rome city is served by 56 churches — about one congregation for every 641 residents.
Churches near Shorter Avenue Baptist Church
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- West Rome United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- West Rome Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bloodline Believers — 0.4 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- West End Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Life of St John Baptist — 0.6 mi away
- Wilkerson Road Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- West Rome Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- West End Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Wilkerson Road Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away