Higher Ground Baptist Church

Higher Ground Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 4615 Rutledge Pike in Rutledge, TN 37861-5068. It is one of 27 churches in Rutledge, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.

This congregation is organized as a church exclusively for charitable, religious, and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, including but not limited to, for such purposes the establishing and maintaining of religious worship, the building, maintaining and operating of churches, parsonages, schools, chapels, radio stations, television stations, rescue missions, print shops, day-care centers, camps, and nursing homes.

4615 Rutledge Pike, Rutledge, TN, 37861-5068

Service times

  • Sunday 11am
  • Sunday 6pm

Phone: (865) 748-1416 · Website: https://hgbcrutledge.blogspot.com/

Higher Ground 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 Higher Ground Baptist Church

It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

  • Obesity: 40.7%
  • Depression: 30.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
  • Child Poverty: 22.2% (10.1–34.4%)
  • Diabetes: 14.8%
  • Unemployment: 6.1% (2.2–10.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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