First Missionary Baptist Church
First Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in WV 24918.
WV, 24918First Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 771 congregations of the Baptist family gather across West 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 Missionary Baptist Church
It takes 3.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Unemployment: 14.1% (2.5–25.6%)
- Obesity: 41.2%
- Social Isolation: 34.1%
- Depression: 31.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
- Diabetes: 16.9%
- Child Poverty: 29.0% (12.0–46.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 16.5% (10.3–22.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Missionary Baptist Church
- Ballard Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Carman Church — 1.7 mi away
- Mount Olive Church — 1.7 mi away
- Cashmere Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Dry Pond Regular Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Bozoo Christian Church — 2.5 mi away in Peterstown, WV
- Church of God of Prophecy — 2.6 mi away in Peterstown, WV
- Thompson Chapel — 2.9 mi away in Peterstown, WV
- Red Sulphur Springs Methodist Church — 3 mi away
- Dry Pond Primitive Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Dry Pond Regular Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Dry Pond Primitive Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Indian Mills Missionary Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- German Baptist Church — 6.3 mi away
- Roles Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 6.5 mi away in Hinton, WV