First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 71 Congress Street in Bradford, PA 16701. It is one of 20 churches in Bradford.
Our commitment remains the same now as then - to be a people of the Lord Jesus and of His Word, serving and growing together in love and grace.
Serving since 1834
71 Congress Street, Bradford, PA, 16701Shares a ministry location with Open Arms Community Church.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Child Poverty: 30.7% (11.3–50.3%)
- Poverty Rate: 30.0% (18.9–41.0%)
- Depression: 28.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
- Diabetes: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bradford city is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 713 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Open Arms Community Church — 0 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bradford Mennonite Church — 0.1 mi away
- Tower Church - First United Methodist — 0.1 mi away
- St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- B-Free First Free Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Ascension — 0.2 mi away
- Hill Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bradford First Church of the Nazarene — 0.6 mi away