Bolton Street Baptist Church

Bolton Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 821 Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard in savannah, GA 31415. It is one of 4 churches in savannah, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.

821 Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, savannah, GA, 31415

Bolton Street Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,847 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 71,420 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 Bolton Street Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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.

  • Child Poverty: 75.7%
  • Poverty Rate: 44.8% (32.4–57.2%)
  • Social Isolation: 40.5%
  • Food Insecurity: 32.3%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.4%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.0%
  • Housing Insecurity: 24.3%
  • Transportation Barriers: 18.4%
  • Unemployment: 10.6% (5.7–16.2%)
  • Obesity: 37.2%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
  • Diabetes: 14.7%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.0% (6.1–16.0%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Savannah city is served by 217 churches — about one congregation for every 727 residents.

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