First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Emporia, KS 66801. It is one of 61 churches in Emporia, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
Emporia, KS, 66801First 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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: 40.0%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Poverty Rate: 29.2% (19.5–38.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 24.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.4% (9.4–21.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
- Child Poverty: 23.1% (4.1–42.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Emporia city is served by 34 churches — about one congregation for every 551 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Saint Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Centro Cristiano De Emporia — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Evangelical United Brethren Church — 0.1 mi away
- Emporia Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Christ Science — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Andrews Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away