First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in York, AL 36925. It is one of 26 churches in York, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
York, AL, 36925Shares a ministry location with York Baptist Church.
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 First Baptist Church
It takes 6.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 50.7%
- Child Poverty: 48.3% (32.4–64.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 34.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.5%
- Diabetes: 23.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.2%
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
- Poverty Rate: 29.3% (20.5–38.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.9%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (0.9–13.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- York Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Truevine Fellowship Full Gospel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Covenant Presbyterian Churcj — 0.3 mi away
- Apostolic Outreach Center — 0.5 mi away
- Eastern Star Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 1.4 mi away
- Rocks Chapel — 1.7 mi away
- Smiths Chapel — 2.2 mi away
- Mount Herman Church — 2.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Eastern Star Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Cuba, AL
- Mount Powell Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Siloam Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away