First African Baptist Church
First African Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 812 Wheeler St in St Marys, GA 31558-8316. It is one of 6 churches in St Marys, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
812 Wheeler St, St Marys, GA, 31558-8316Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 1pm
Phone: +19128824483 · Website: http://firstafricanbc.com/
First African 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 First African Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Child Poverty: 66.7%
- Poverty Rate: 33.6% (20.0–47.2%)
- Obesity: 41.2%
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Food Insecurity: 22.2%
- Diabetes: 16.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
- Unemployment: 6.0% (2.9–10.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First African Baptist Church
- Wheeler St Church of God — 0 mi away
- Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away in Saint Marys, GA
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away in Saint Marys, GA
- First Baptist Church of Saint Marys — 0.5 mi away in Saint Marys, GA
- Saint Marys Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away in Saint Marys, GA
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away in Saint Marys, GA
- Evangelical Temple Assembly of God Church — 0.6 mi away in Saint Marys, GA
- Coastal Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Saint Marys, GA
- Westside Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in St. Marys, GA
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Saint Marys — 0.5 mi away in Saint Marys, GA
- Coastal Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Saint Marys, GA
- Westside Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in St. Marys, GA
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Saint Marys, GA