First Missionary Baptist Church
First Missionary Baptist Church is a church at 2713 Clarendon Ave in Bessemer, AL 35020-4313. It is one of 167 churches in Bessemer.
2713 Clarendon Ave, Bessemer, AL, 35020-4313Phone: +12054264841 · Website: http://firstmissionarybaptistchurch.net
First Missionary Baptist Church 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 Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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: 75.5%
- Food Insecurity: 55.5%
- Poverty Rate: 53.6%
- Obesity: 53.1%
- Social Isolation: 44.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 32.0%
- Diabetes: 27.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.4%
- Unemployment: 13.7% (2.7–24.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (8.3–18.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Missionary Baptist Church
- Little True Vine Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shady Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Brickyard Hills Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Ward Chapel A.M.E. Church — 0.3 mi away
- Victory Through Faith Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist East Bessemer — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Twentyfirst Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Shady Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Twentyfirst Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away