First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Shorter, AL 36075. It is one of 19 churches in Shorter, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Shorter, AL, 36075First 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, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Diabetes: 18.2%
- Obesity: 44.6%
- Social Isolation: 36.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
- Food Insecurity: 24.3%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (2.9–15.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Cubahatchee Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Hall Mitchell Church — 1.2 mi away
- Piney Grove Church — 2 mi away
- St Paul's AME Zion Church — 2.1 mi away
- Saint Pauls Church — 2.2 mi away
- Mary Magdeline Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- New Hope Church — 2.9 mi away
- Shorters Church — 2.9 mi away
- White Church — 3.2 mi away
- Calabee Church — 3.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Cubahatchee Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Mary Magdeline Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 6.2 mi away in Tallassee, AL
- St James Baptist Church — 6.8 mi away in Pike Road, AL
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 6.9 mi away in Montgomery, AL