Georgia Avenue Baptist Church
Georgia Avenue Baptist Church is a church at 27 E Geeter Rd in Memphis, TN 38109-6615. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis.
27 E Geeter Rd, Memphis, TN, 38109-6615Service times
- Sunday 8am · School
Phone: (901) 789-4400 · Website: http://www.gabcmemphis.org/
Georgia Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,871 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 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 Georgia Avenue 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 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: 49.3%
- Child Poverty: 47.3% (27.9–66.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.6%
- Diabetes: 25.8%
- Unemployment: 13.4% (4.7–22.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 28.4% (18.4–38.3%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.2% (9.9–22.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
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- Wilson Chapel AME Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater St Thomas Missionary — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Thomas Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- StartNew StartNow Church Inc. — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Bethlehem Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Bearman Golden Gardens — 0.4 mi away
- New Mount Sinai Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Highway Church of God In Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Thomas Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Mount Sinai Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Joyner Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Grace Landmark Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away