Higher Ground Baptist Church
Higher Ground Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 9120 Whitfield Ave in Savannah, GA 31406-6900. It is one of 461 churches in Savannah, and one of 125 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1974
9120 Whitfield Ave, Savannah, GA, 31406-6900Phone: (912) 355-1505 · Website: https://hgbaptist.com/missions/
Shares a ministry location with Cresthill Church.
Higher Ground 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 — 71,417 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 Higher Ground 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. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 10 the people here 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.
- Social Isolation: 33.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (6.2–15.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Higher Ground Baptist Church
- Cresthill Church — 0 mi away
- Savannah Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Luke United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sanctuary of Savannah Church — 0.5 mi away
- Savannah Korean American Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Fellowship Church — 0.8 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- New Abundant Harvest Cdwc — 0.8 mi away
- Living Waters Assembly of God Church — 1 mi away
- Lightsavannah Church — 1 mi away
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