First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Sheffield, AL 35660. It is one of 43 churches in Sheffield, and one of 9 Baptist congregations in the city.
Sheffield, AL, 35660Website: http://www.fbcsheffield.org
First 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 — 71,418 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.2%
- Food Insecurity: 28.3%
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Obesity: 42.4%
- Social Isolation: 36.8%
- Child Poverty: 33.7% (15.6–51.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 27.6% (18.1–37.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Depression: 25.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Sheffield city is served by 34 churches — about one congregation for every 274 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Pentecostal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Providence Gospel Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Gathering — 0.2 mi away
- Columbia Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Annapolis Avenue Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Central Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sheffield Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Friendship Freewill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Friendship Freewill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt Hope Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Gaston Chapel Primitive Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away