Sparks First Baptist Church
Sparks First Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church at 101 Gordon Street in Sparks, GA 31647. It is one of 11 churches in Sparks.
101 Gordon Street, Sparks, GA, 31647Phone: +1-229-549-8449
Sparks First 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 Sparks First Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
- Food Insecurity: 29.0%
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Poverty Rate: 27.5% (17.3–37.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.5%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.3% (11.1–23.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
- Obesity: 39.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.7%
- Unemployment: 6.7% (1.4–11.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Sparks First Baptist Church
- Sparks United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Mount Zion Fire Babtize Holiness Church of Sparks, INC — 0.3 mi away
- Cottrell Chapel C M E Church — 0.3 mi away in Lenox, GA
- Cornerstone Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Maranatha Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Church of Christ — 1.7 mi away in Adel, GA
- Adel First Assembly of God — 1.7 mi away in Adel, GA
- The Assembly at Adel — 1.7 mi away in Adel, GA
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 1.8 mi away in Adel, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Gordon Avenue Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away in Adel, GA
- West Side Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Adel, GA
- Salem Primitive Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away in Adel, GA
- First Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away in Adel, GA