Union Baptist Church
Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Shellman, GA 39886. It is one of 21 churches in Shellman, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Shellman, GA, 39886Union 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 Union Baptist Church
It takes 7.2 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 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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: 31.7%
- Food Insecurity: 31.0%
- Diabetes: 21.5%
- Obesity: 44.0%
- Social Isolation: 38.8%
- Poverty Rate: 29.1% (19.3–39.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.0%
- Unemployment: 10.1% (1.2–19.5%)
- Child Poverty: 28.6% (11.2–46.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Union Baptist Church
- Bethel A.M.E Church — 0.2 mi away
- Agape Ministries INC — 0.3 mi away
- Shellman Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Shellman — 0.6 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Rehoboth Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Rehobeth Church — 1.9 mi away
- Union Hill Church — 2.7 mi away
- Enterprise Church — 3.7 mi away
- Pachitla Church — 4 mi away in Cuthbert, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Shellman — 0.6 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Rehoboth Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away in Dawson, GA