First Freewill Baptist Church
First Freewill Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gadsden, AL 35904. It is one of 215 churches in Gadsden, and one of 75 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gadsden, AL, 35904First Freewill Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,551 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 71,417 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 Freewill Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 63.3% (44.5–82.1%)
- Obesity: 53.8%
- Food Insecurity: 44.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.8%
- Poverty Rate: 40.7% (27.7–53.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 29.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.3% (13.6–33.1%)
- Diabetes: 23.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.4%
- Social Isolation: 39.7%
- Depression: 27.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.1%
- Unemployment: 9.2% (0.5–18.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Gadsden city is served by 121 churches — about one congregation for every 258 residents.
Churches near First Freewill Baptist Church
- Etowah Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Gospel Truth Light House Church — 0.2 mi away
- Forrest Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Alabama City Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Church On the Rock — 0.2 mi away
- Kyle Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sansom Avenue Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Freedom Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Word of Life Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Forrest Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kyle Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Oak Park Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Alabama City — 0.6 mi away