First Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church in Valdosta, GA 31601. It is one of 178 churches in Valdosta.
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, 31601Website: http://www.firstpresvaldosta.org/
First Presbyterian Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story.
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