Albany Avenue Baptist Church
Albany Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Waycross, GA 31501. It is one of 163 churches in Waycross, and one of 35 Baptist congregations in the city.
Waycross, GA, 31501Albany Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,847 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 71,419 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 Albany Avenue Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 47.9%
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Food Insecurity: 37.6%
- Poverty Rate: 36.3% (24.0–48.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.7%
- Diabetes: 23.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.2%
- Child Poverty: 35.2% (18.7–51.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.6%
- Unemployment: 10.9% (2.4–19.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (6.3–17.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Waycross city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 161 residents.
Churches near Albany Avenue Baptist Church
- True Foundation Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- FW The Experience — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.4 mi away
- CrossView Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bible Heritage Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Works Church of God in Christ, Inc. — 0.4 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Second Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away