The Original First African Baptist Church

The Original First African Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 545 Westside Rd in Statesboro, GA 30458-8504. It is one of 111 churches in Statesboro, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.

At Original First African Baptist Church, we inspire individuals of all ages and backgrounds to bring the Lord Almighty into their lives at every moment - moments of joy, moments of despair, and even those moments in between.

545 Westside Rd, Statesboro, GA, 30458-8504

Service times

  • Sunday 8:30am

Phone: +19127647779 · Website: https://www.ofab.church/

The Original 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 The Original First African Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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.

  • Social Isolation: 40.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 35.4% (26.4–44.4%)
  • Food Insecurity: 26.7%
  • Obesity: 40.8%
  • Housing Insecurity: 20.0%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.3% (10.6–22.0%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.5%
  • Unemployment: 11.3% (5.8–17.0%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.5%
  • Transportation Barriers: 15.7%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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