First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Marion, AL 36756. It is one of 72 churches in Marion, and one of 13 Baptist congregations in the city.
Marion, AL, 36756Shares a ministry location with Berean Baptist Church.
First 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 Baptist Church
It takes 4.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Child Poverty: 72.6%
- Obesity: 51.1%
- Food Insecurity: 38.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.9%
- Diabetes: 22.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.3%
- Unemployment: 14.6% (3.7–25.7%)
- Social Isolation: 39.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.3%
- Poverty Rate: 24.0% (12.6–35.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Berean Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Siloam Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Marion Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lake Payne Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Zion United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Turner African Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Siloam Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away
- Greenleaf Church — 7.6 mi away