First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church in Scottsboro, AL 35768. It is one of 65 churches in Scottsboro.
The mission of First Baptist Church Scottsboro - Alabama is the same mission Jesus gave His followers: Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Scottsboro, AL, 35768First 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 about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 48.4% (30.1–66.6%)
- Obesity: 40.9%
- Social Isolation: 33.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.9%
- Depression: 27.4%
- Poverty Rate: 27.0% (18.2–35.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 23.5%
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (3.0–11.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Scottsboro city is served by 50 churches — about one congregation for every 167 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- St Lukes Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Broad Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Scottsboro Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Scottsboro Church Of God — 0.4 mi away
- Lighthouse Ministry — 0.5 mi away
- St. Paul A.M.E. Church — 0.5 mi away
- North Houston Street Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- St. Elizabeth Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Covenant A.O.H. Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away