Opelika First Baptist Church
Opelika First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 301 South 8th Street in Opelika, AL 36801. It is one of 124 churches in Opelika, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
301 South 8th Street, Opelika, AL, 36801Shares a ministry location with Bethel Baptist Church and PIBO.
Opelika 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 Opelika First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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 about 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 48.2%
- Food Insecurity: 32.8%
- Poverty Rate: 32.6% (19.1–46.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.3%
- Diabetes: 20.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.2%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (0.6–13.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Opelika city is served by 23 churches — about one congregation for every 1,207 residents.
Churches near Opelika First Baptist Church
- PIBO — 0 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- FBCO Kids Ministry — 0.1 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fellowship Of Faith — 0.3 mi away
- True Hope Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Emanuel Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Providence Presbyterian Church Auburn-Opelika — 0.3 mi away
- Ferguson Christian Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Temple Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bethesda Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint James Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Heritage Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Greater Peace Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away