First African Baptist Church
First African Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 402 Tarber Street Ext in Screven, GA 31560. It is one of 6 churches in Screven, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
To bring glory to God and hope to the world, by equipping and empowering our members for excellence in Christian Ministry.
402 Tarber Street Ext, Screven, GA, 31560Service times
- Wednesday 7pm · Bible Study
Phone: (912) 579-2648
First African Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,848 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 71,352 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.
Find First African Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around First African Baptist Church
It takes 5.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 43.8% (29.0–58.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.8% (15.2–30.4%)
- Obesity: 42.1%
- Social Isolation: 36.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Poverty Rate: 25.9% (15.4–36.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.9%
- Diabetes: 16.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First African Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church of Screven — 0.8 mi away
- Church of God — 3.7 mi away
- Lake Grace Christian Mennonite Church — 5.5 mi away in Jesup, GA
- Liberty Lighthouse Church — 5.7 mi away in Jesup, GA
- The Pastor's Cave — 5.8 mi away
- O'Quinn Church — 5.8 mi away
- Satilla Church — 6 mi away in Jesup, GA
- Deliverance Church — 6.4 mi away in Jesup, GA
- Westside Church of God — 6.5 mi away in Jesup, GA
- New Home Church — 6.7 mi away in Patterson, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Screven — 0.8 mi away
- O'Quinn Church — 5.8 mi away
- Flint Branch Baptist Church — 7.9 mi away in Jesup, GA
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 7.9 mi away in Jesup, GA
- Lake Chapel Primitive Baptist Church — 8.3 mi away in Patterson, GA