First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Sylvania, GA 30467. It is one of 90 churches in Sylvania, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Sylvania, GA, 30467First 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 Baptist Church
It takes 4.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Social Isolation: 37.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.4%
- Food Insecurity: 22.5%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Obesity: 39.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.1% (4.3–21.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.7%
- Unemployment: 7.3% (1.3–14.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Memorial Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Our Lady of the Assumption Church — 0.6 mi away
- Life Hope Church — 0.7 mi away
- The City of Victory - Sounds of Praise Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bible Church — 0.7 mi away
- Kingdom Embassy Community Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Waters Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Farmdale Southern Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
- Green Hill Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away