First Missionary Baptist Church
First Missionary 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, 35660First Missionary 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 Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 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 the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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: 48.8% (30.4–67.4%)
- Obesity: 45.9%
- Poverty Rate: 38.1% (27.2–49.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 37.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.5%
- Diabetes: 21.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
- Depression: 26.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (0.1–13.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Sheffield city is served by 34 churches — about one congregation for every 274 residents.
Churches near First Missionary Baptist Church
- Healing Fountain Church of God — 0 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Gaston Chapel Primitive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Brown Christian Methodist Episcopal Temple — 0.1 mi away
- Everdale Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Providence Gospel Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Gaston Chapel Primitive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Everdale Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away