First Baptist Church
First 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, 31501First 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 — 71,417 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 First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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.
- Obesity: 49.6%
- Social Isolation: 41.8%
- Food Insecurity: 41.4%
- Poverty Rate: 37.5% (23.8–51.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.8%
- Diabetes: 23.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.1%
- Child Poverty: 34.6% (18.2–51.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.1% (9.4–24.8%)
- Unemployment: 10.9% (1.9–19.9%)
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 First Baptist Church
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Josephs Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Victory Chapel Christian Fellowship Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Maranatha Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Freedom Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- FW The Experience — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Central Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Crawford Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away