First African Baptist Church
First African Baptist Church is a church at 606 W Pope St in Sylvester, GA 31791-1931. It is one of 43 churches in Sylvester.
606 W Pope St, Sylvester, GA, 31791-1931Phone: +12297765176 · Website: https://fabtohofsylvester.wixsite.com/hope
Shares a ministry location with Brook Chapel Baptist Church.
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
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 38.7%
- Child Poverty: 36.4% (20.3–52.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
- Poverty Rate: 22.9% (15.5–30.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.7%
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Obesity: 39.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (7.3–15.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First African Baptist Church
- Brook Chapel Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Macedonia Church — 0.1 mi away
- Jones Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sylvester Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- First Assembly of God — 0.5 mi away
- Pinson Memorial Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Sinai Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Northside Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Unity Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Isabella Missionary Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Poulan, GA