First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in VA 24282.
VA, 24282First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,727 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 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 First Baptist Church
It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third 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.
- Child Poverty: 72.3%
- Poverty Rate: 38.6% (23.0–54.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.3%
- Food Insecurity: 25.5%
- Diabetes: 20.2%
- Obesity: 44.8%
- Social Isolation: 34.3%
- Depression: 28.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.6%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (1.9–10.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Saint Charles Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Charles Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Darbyville Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Admant Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA
- Rocklick Church — 2 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA
- Belcher Chapel — 2.5 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA
- Meadow Fork Church — 2.8 mi away
- Pine Grove Church — 2.9 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA
- Pennington Gap Church of God — 3.1 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA
- Burhart Chapel — 3.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Darbyville Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Admant Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA
- First Baptist Church of Pennington Gap — 3.3 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA
- Calvary Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA
- Willow Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 7.9 mi away in Evarts, KY