First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in VA 23415.
VA, 23415Website: http://firstbaptistnewchurchva.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,736 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 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.
Find First Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around 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, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Social Isolation: 33.9%
- Diabetes: 16.7%
- Obesity: 39.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.3%
- Food Insecurity: 18.7%
- Poverty Rate: 16.9% (8.3–25.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Berea United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Chincoteague Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Sinai Church — 2.2 mi away
- Beaver Dam Church — 2.2 mi away in Pocomoke City, MD
- Pittsville Church — 2.6 mi away
- Downings United Methodist Church — 3 mi away in Oak Hall, VA
- Miracle Deliverance Tabernacle — 3.1 mi away in Pokomoke City, MD
- Friendship Church — 3.4 mi away
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away in Pocomoke City, MD
- Tabernacle Church — 3.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Tabernacle Church — 3.6 mi away
- Mt Hope Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Stockton, MD
- Jerusalem Church — 5.3 mi away in Temperanceville, VA
- Atlantic Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away in Atlantic, VA
- Bayside Community Church — 5.6 mi away in Pocomoke City, MD