Memorial Freewill Baptist Church
Memorial Freewill Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Surrency, GA 31563. It is one of 12 churches in Surrency, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
Surrency, GA, 31563Memorial Freewill 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 Memorial Freewill Baptist Church
It takes 6.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of the children here are growing up 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.
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Child Poverty: 35.7% (17.1–54.3%)
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
- Poverty Rate: 23.7% (14.3–33.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.0%
- Diabetes: 17.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.4% (9.5–21.4%)
- Depression: 23.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Memorial Freewill Baptist Church
- Carters Chapel — 2.4 mi away in Baxley, GA
- Zion Church of God — 2.6 mi away in Baxley, GA
- Milikin Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Baxley, GA
- Cook Chapel — 3.6 mi away in Baxley, GA
- Morris Chapel — 3.8 mi away
- Second Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away
- Jesus Church — 5 mi away in Odum, GA
- Surrency Grove Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away
- St. Paul Church of God in Christ — 5.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Baxley, GA
- Second Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away
- Surrency Grove Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away
- St. Paul Church of God in Christ — 5.1 mi away
- Surrency Missionary Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away