First Baptist East Bessemer
First Baptist East Bessemer is a church at 3101 Fairfax Ave in Bessemer, AL 35020-4374. It is one of 167 churches in Bessemer.
3101 Fairfax Ave, Bessemer, AL, 35020-4374Phone: +12054242460 · Website: http://firstbaptistbc.com
First Baptist East Bessemer is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,553 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 71,872 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 East Bessemer
Within about a mile of this church, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 72.0%
- Food Insecurity: 53.1%
- Obesity: 51.9%
- Poverty Rate: 51.2%
- Social Isolation: 44.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.6%
- Diabetes: 26.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.3%
- Unemployment: 13.3% (2.6–23.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (7.9–17.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist East Bessemer
- Victory Through Faith Church — 0.2 mi away
- Woodward Chapel AME — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Of Olives Full Gospel Church — 0.3 mi away
- Old St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Pastor Alfonza January 1983-2022 — 0.3 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Shady Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Little True Vine Primitive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Brickyard Hills Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Ward Chapel A.M.E. Church — 0.7 mi away
- Christ City Church — 0.7 mi away in Lipscomb, AL
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Union Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in Lipscomb, AL
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Lipscomb, AL
- Twentyfirst Street Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away