First Southern Baptist Church
First Southern Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church at 851 North Stapley Drive in Mesa, AZ 85203. It is one of 382 churches in Mesa, and one of 3 Southern Baptist congregations in the city.
851 North Stapley Drive, Mesa, AZ, 85203Shares a ministry location with Iglesia Experimenta Vida.
First Southern Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 508 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Arizona — 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 Southern Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on. That is 2,400 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 33.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.6%
- Food Insecurity: 17.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (6.1–18.4%)
- Unemployment: 7.8% (2.2–13.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Mesa city is served by 198 churches — about one congregation for every 2,520 residents.
Churches near First Southern Baptist Church
- Iglesia Experimenta Vida — 0 mi away
- Heart of Mesa — 0 mi away
- Valley Rim Southern Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Luke's Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Apologia Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Redeemer — 0.2 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.4 mi away
- 8th Street Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Heart of Mesa — 0 mi away
- Valley Rim Southern Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Restoring Love Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away