Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 116 Pine Street in Shellman, GA 39886. It is one of 21 churches in Shellman, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
116 Pine Street, Shellman, GA, 39886Pleasant Grove 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 Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
It takes 6.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
- Food Insecurity: 31.4%
- Poverty Rate: 30.9% (21.1–40.8%)
- Diabetes: 21.6%
- Obesity: 44.1%
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.2%
- Unemployment: 10.3% (1.8–19.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
- Child Poverty: 27.9% (10.8–45.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (6.5–16.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church of Shellman — 0.5 mi away
- Shellman Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Rehoboth Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Rehobeth Church — 0.9 mi away
- Bethel A.M.E Church — 0.9 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Agape Ministries INC — 1.2 mi away
- Oak Grove Church — 3 mi away in Dawson, GA
- Union Hill Church — 3.7 mi away
- Enterprise Church — 4.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Shellman — 0.5 mi away
- Rehoboth Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- First Shiloh Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away in Dawson, GA
- Friendship Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away