West Blocton First Baptist Church
West Blocton First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in West Blocton, AL 35184. It is one of 26 churches in West Blocton, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
Love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. Love people as Christ loves us. Make disciples who make disciples. Serve our community with compassion and excellence.
Part of Bibb Baptist Association
West Blocton, AL, 35184West Blocton 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.
Ministries at West Blocton First Baptist Church
- Food Pantry
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Latest from West Blocton First Baptist Church's YouTube channel: WBFBC Sunday Service 5/31/26 (all videos).
The community around West Blocton First Baptist Church
It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 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.
- Unemployment: 15.9% (8.4–23.4%)
- Obesity: 42.6%
- Social Isolation: 35.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
- Food Insecurity: 21.4%
- Depression: 26.8%
- Child Poverty: 22.0% (9.4–34.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 16.3% (9.1–23.6%)
- Diabetes: 14.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (7.0–19.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near West Blocton First Baptist Church
- New Life West Blocton Church — 0.1 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Smith Hill Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Blocton Third Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- New Hebron Missionary Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- West Blocton church of Christ — 1.6 mi away
- McCulley Hill Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Lowerytown Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Hopewell Primitive Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Smith Hill Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Blocton Third Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- New Hebron Missionary Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- McCulley Hill Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
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