First Baptist Church of Ensley
First Baptist Church of Ensley is a Baptist church in Birmingham, AL 35218. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham, and one of 102 Baptist congregations in the city.
The Mission of the First Baptist Church of Ensley is to Reach, Teach, and Baptize throughout the world beginning in the community to serve as L.I.G.H.T.S. in an effort to fulfill the Great Commission by the power and presence of the Holy Spirit until our Lord Returns in Final Triumph.
Birmingham, AL, 35218Service times
- Wednesday 7pm · Prayer Praise Presentation of Word Begins
- Sunday, Monday 6:30pm · School Intensive Study
Website: http://www.fbcensley.com/
First Baptist Church of Ensley 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 Church of Ensley
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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.
- Obesity: 49.6%
- Social Isolation: 43.2%
- Food Insecurity: 42.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.0%
- Diabetes: 25.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
- Poverty Rate: 27.0% (13.2–40.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.5% (6.6–24.4%)
- Unemployment: 9.9% (4.9–15.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Birmingham city is served by 254 churches — about one congregation for every 722 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Ensley
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.1 mi away
- Metropolitan Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Pleasant View MBC, Ensley — 0.1 mi away
- Abyssinia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater New Beginning Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Corinthian Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Nichols Temple AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ensley First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Pleasant View MBC, Ensley — 0.1 mi away
- Abyssinia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Corinthian Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lily Grove Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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