First Baptist Church Rising
First Baptist Church Rising is a church at 1400 1st Ave W in Birmingham, AL 35208-5404. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham.
1400 1st Ave W, Birmingham, AL, 35208-5404Phone: +12057867888 · Website: http://firstbaptistchurchrising.webs.com
First Baptist Church Rising 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 Rising
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: 46.1%
- Social Isolation: 42.9%
- Food Insecurity: 38.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.5%
- Diabetes: 24.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.9%
- Poverty Rate: 28.6% (17.2–40.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.4% (7.4–21.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (1.4–11.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church Rising
- Bethel AME Church-Rising — 0.1 mi away
- Rising Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bush Hills Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Sardis Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hunter Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church West Princeton — 0.5 mi away
- Temple of Truth Apostolic — 0.6 mi away
- Fairview United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- CBF Ministries International — 0.7 mi away
- Mt Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Rising Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sardis Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hunter Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- West End Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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