Whitehall Free Will Baptist Church

The community around Whitehall Free Will Baptist Church

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: 41.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.5%
• Poverty Rate: 35.8% (21.9–49.8%)
• Housing Insecurity: 31.2%
• Diabetes: 22.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.1% (12.5–31.7%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.6%
• Transportation Barriers: 20.4%
• Unemployment: 10.4% (2.0–18.8%)

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 Whitehall Free Will Baptist Church

• Morton Avenue Baptist Mission — 0.1 mi away
• Congregational First Born Church — 0.1 mi away
• Zion Rest Primitive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
• Light Of The World Ministries — 0.1 mi away
• Light of the World Ministries — 0.3 mi away
• Community Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
• Gaines Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
• Saint Peters Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
• Church of Christ Written In Heaven — 0.4 mi away
• Waycross Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away