Townsend Baptist Church
Townsend Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Townsend, GA 31331. It is one of 33 churches in Townsend, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Townsend, GA, 31331Townsend 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 Townsend Baptist Church
It takes 6.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.3%
- Food Insecurity: 28.5%
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Obesity: 43.0%
- Social Isolation: 39.3%
- Poverty Rate: 28.1% (15.5–40.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
- Child Poverty: 23.0% (9.1–36.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.8% (7.9–21.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Townsend Baptist Church
- Church of God — 1.2 mi away
- Second Credit Hill Church — 2.5 mi away
- Credit Hill Church — 3.4 mi away
- Eulonia Church of God of Prophecy — 4.2 mi away
- Church of God — 4.4 mi away
- Wayfair Primitive Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
- Daniel Grove Church — 4.8 mi away
- Youngs Island Community Church of God — 5.2 mi away in Riceboro, GA
- Shorter Chapel — 5.5 mi away
- Second Woodland Church — 6.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Wayfair Primitive Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
- First African Baptist Church — 7.5 mi away in Riceboro, GA
- Tibet Baptist Church — 8.9 mi away in Ludowici, GA
- Crescent Baptist Church — 9.5 mi away
- South Newport Baptist Church — 10 mi away