First Southern Baptist Church of Safford
First Southern Baptist Church of Safford is a Baptist church at 795 South 1st Avenue in Safford, AZ 85546. It is one of 37 churches in Safford, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
795 South 1st Avenue, Safford, AZ, 85546Phone: (928) 428-2421 · Website: https://fsbcsafford.tripod.com/id3.html
First Southern Baptist Church of Safford is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 508 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Arizona — 71,419 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 of Safford
Within about a mile of this church, 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 describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand 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: 31.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.3%
- Food Insecurity: 19.5%
- Poverty Rate: 17.5% (11.5–23.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (6.8–16.6%)
- Unemployment: 7.8% (2.8–12.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Safford city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 484 residents.
Churches near First Southern Baptist Church of Safford
- All-Saints Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- MVMT Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Assembly of God — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Safford Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Safford Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- True Hope Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- The Potter's House — 0.3 mi away
- St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Desert Springs Community Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pilgrim Star Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- New Testament Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Crossroads Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away in Thatcher, AZ