First Country Baptist Church
First Country Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 12844 West Santa Fe Drive in Surprise, AZ 85378. It is one of 64 churches in Surprise, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
12844 West Santa Fe Drive, Surprise, AZ, 85378First Country 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 Country Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 43.0% (24.1–61.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 29.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.0%
- Social Isolation: 34.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
- Poverty Rate: 23.6% (14.3–32.9%)
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Obesity: 36.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (5.6–16.7%)
- Unemployment: 7.8% (3.5–12.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Surprise city is served by 19 churches — about one congregation for every 7,520 residents.
Churches near First Country Baptist Church
- Iglesia Reestructurada Del Espíritu Santo — 0.2 mi away
- Gideon Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mountain of Life Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Aspire Church — 0.3 mi away
- Revival City Church - Surprise — 0.4 mi away
- Pan de Vida Iglesia Luterana — 0.5 mi away
- Reveal Church — 0.5 mi away in El Mirage, AZ
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
- Surprise Apostolic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia del Valle de las Asambleas de Dios — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Gideon Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church, Sun City West — 0.9 mi away in Sun City West, AZ
- Grace Point Church — 1.2 mi away
- Hillview Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Cross Church El Mirage — 3 mi away in El Mirage, AZ