First Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church in Sylvester, GA 31791. It is one of 43 churches in Sylvester.
Sylvester, GA, 31791First Presbyterian Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story. 374 congregations of the Presbyterian family gather across Georgia — 11,342 across the United States on The Church Map.
Presbyterians gave American Christianity much of its backbone: seminaries, catechisms, and shared government by elders rather than by one man, a habit that shaped the country's civic life as much as its churches. They have been among the most persistent builders of colleges, hospitals, and mission agencies this nation has.
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The community around First Presbyterian Church
It takes 2.6 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 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. 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: 38.6%
- Child Poverty: 37.1% (21.0–53.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
- Poverty Rate: 23.2% (15.7–30.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.5%
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Obesity: 39.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (7.4–15.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Presbyterian Church
- Pinson Memorial Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sylvester Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Northside Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jones Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Brook Chapel Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First African Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Macedonia Church — 0.7 mi away
- Sylvester First Free Will — 0.8 mi away
More Presbyterian churches nearby
- First Presbyterian Church — 19.2 mi away in Albany, GA
- C K Smith Memorial Presbyterian Church — 19.4 mi away in Albany, GA
- New Life Presbyterian Church — 19.5 mi away in Tifton, GA
- First Presbyterian Church — 19.8 mi away in Tifton, GA