First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Thomaston, GA 30286. It is one of 90 churches in Thomaston, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Thomaston, GA, 30286Shares a ministry location with Macedonia Baptist Church.
First 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
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. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 30.6% (20.8–40.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 28.9%
- Diabetes: 18.7%
- Obesity: 42.5%
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (6.1–17.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Saint Mary African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Baptist Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Sinai Seventh Day Adventist — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- RUSH Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Baptist Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Silvertown Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Grace Primitive Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away