First Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church in Valdosta, GA 31601. It is one of 233 churches in Valdosta, and one of 3 Presbyterian congregations in the city.
FPC of Valdosta started Break Bread Together on December 3, 1973. Currently also designated as Valdosta’s Meals on Wheels, it is a volunteer community service project that furnishes a hot, balanced, noonday meal five days a week to low income, usually elderly, homebound recipients in Valdosta with no one in the home to care for them.
Valdosta, GA, 31601Service times
- Sunday 10:55am · Facebook Page FPCValdosta we will go live
Phone: (229) 249-0779 · Website: http://www.firstpresvaldosta.org/
First Presbyterian Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story. 394 congregations of the Presbyterian family gather across Georgia — 11,639 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.
Ministries at First Presbyterian Church
- Meals on Wheels
- Rise Against Hunger
- Bun Run 5K
- Campus Ministry
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The community around First Presbyterian Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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.
- Child Poverty: 63.6% (45.2–82.0%)
- Obesity: 52.8%
- Food Insecurity: 50.5%
- Social Isolation: 42.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.2%
- Poverty Rate: 40.6% (28.5–52.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 37.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.0%
- Diabetes: 25.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.0% (15.6–32.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.3%
- Unemployment: 16.8% (4.7–28.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Valdosta city is served by 99 churches — about one congregation for every 555 residents.
Churches near First Presbyterian Church
- First Methodist Church of Valdosta — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Solomon's porch — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lee Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holiness House of Praise Church — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Avenue Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Christ the King Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mosaic United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Presbyterian churches nearby
- Redeemer Presbyterian Church, PCA — 1.2 mi away
- Trinity Presbyterian Church — 3.9 mi away
- First Korean Presbyterian Church — 7.1 mi away
- Twin Lakes Presbyterian Church — 10.2 mi away in Lake Park, GA