Morton Avenue Baptist Mission
Morton Avenue Baptist Mission 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, 31501Shares a ministry location with Congregational First Born Church.
Morton Avenue Baptist Mission 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 Morton Avenue Baptist Mission
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 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 nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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%
- Child Poverty: 48.6% (30.5–66.7%)
- Social Isolation: 42.5%
- Food Insecurity: 41.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.5%
- Poverty Rate: 35.9% (21.9–49.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 31.3%
- Diabetes: 22.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.1% (12.5–31.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.4%
- Unemployment: 10.4% (2.1–18.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Waycross city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 161 residents.
Churches near Morton Avenue Baptist Mission
- Congregational First Born Church — 0 mi away
- Whitehall Free Will Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Rest Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Light Of The World Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Gaines Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Waycross Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Community Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Light of the World Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ Written In Heaven — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Olive Chapel Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Whitehall Free Will Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Rest Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Peters Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away