Church of the Nazarene
Church of the Nazarene is a church in Waycross, GA 31501. It is one of 163 churches in Waycross.
Waycross, GA, 31501Church of the Nazarene is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 88 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Georgia — 4,365 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around Church of the Nazarene
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 nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand 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: 40.1%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
- Food Insecurity: 20.7%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Child Poverty: 27.0% (8.4–45.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.7% (13.1–30.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (8.1–19.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%
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 Church of the Nazarene
- Piedmont Okefenokee Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Brooks Church — 0.2 mi away
- Waycross Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Evangelical Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Church — 0.3 mi away
- Carthedral of Faith Ministries, Waycross, Georgia — 0.4 mi away
- Victory Drive Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Okefenokee Church — 0.4 mi away
- Waycross First Assembly — 0.6 mi away
- Sunnyside Church — 0.6 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- First Church of the Nazarene — 2 mi away
- Coffee Wesleyan Church — 17.3 mi away in Alma, GA
- First Church of the Nazarene — 22.3 mi away in Alma, GA