First United Baptist Church
First United Baptist Church is a church in Forkland, AL. It is one of 13 churches in Forkland.
Forkland, ALWebsite: www.nonprofitfacts.com/AL/First-United-Baptist-Church.html
Shares a ministry location with Friendship Church.
First United 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 United Baptist Church
It takes 7.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 51.8%
- Food Insecurity: 37.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.6%
- Diabetes: 24.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.8%
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.4%
- Poverty Rate: 23.2% (13.2–33.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.8%
- Unemployment: 9.2% (0.5–18.7%)
- Child Poverty: 26.6% (6.6–46.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Baptist Church
- Friendship Church — 0 mi away
- Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. John's Episcopal Church, Forkland, Al — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- Lloyds Chapel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- St John's-In-The-Prairie — 0.9 mi away
- Freehope Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Boligee, AL
- Ebenezer Presbyterian Church — 2.7 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Boligee, AL
- Saint Matthew Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Boligee, AL
More Baptist churches nearby
- Freehope Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Boligee, AL
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Boligee, AL
- Saint Matthew Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Boligee, AL
- Pinetop Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Livingston, AL
- Spring Hill Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Boligee, AL