The Rock (Central Baptist Church Youth Building)
The Rock (Central Baptist Church Youth Building) is a church at 201 Ava Street in Waycross, GA 31501. It is one of 163 churches in Waycross.
201 Ava Street, Waycross, GA, 31501The Rock (Central Baptist Church Youth Building) 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 The Rock (Central Baptist Church Youth Building)
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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 45.2%
- Food Insecurity: 32.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
- Poverty Rate: 30.6% (20.2–41.1%)
- Diabetes: 21.1%
- Social Isolation: 39.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
- Child Poverty: 26.5% (9.4–43.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (7.8–20.5%)
- Unemployment: 6.8% (1.6–12.3%)
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 The Rock (Central Baptist Church Youth Building)
- Central Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sweetwater Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ambassadors For Christ Of The Living God Ministries, Inc. — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- King Solomon Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Faith Temple Church — 0.5 mi away
- El Bethel Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Central Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sweetwater Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- The Upper Room Outreach Ministries — 0.8 mi away