Antioch Baptist Church
Antioch Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Waycross, GA 31501. It is one of 163 churches in Waycross, and one of 31 Baptist congregations in the city.
Waycross, GA, 31501Antioch 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 Antioch Baptist 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 a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 31.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.1%
- Diabetes: 20.2%
- Obesity: 44.9%
- Social Isolation: 39.5%
- Poverty Rate: 29.6% (19.0–40.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.6% (8.8–22.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
- Child Poverty: 26.4% (10.3–42.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (1.4–12.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Waycross city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 161 residents.
Churches near Antioch Baptist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- King Solomon Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Rock (Central Baptist Church Youth Building) — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
- Ambassadors For Christ Of The Living God Ministries, Inc. — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Olive Chapel Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Church of Christ Written In Heaven — 0.6 mi away
- Gaines Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Central Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Rock (Central Baptist Church Youth Building) — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sweetwater Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away