First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1320 Barstow Road in Barstow, CA 92311. It is one of 48 churches in Barstow, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
We exist to glorify God by making disciples in our families, in our community, and among all nations.
1320 Barstow Road, Barstow, CA, 92311Website: https://fbcbarstow.com/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,885 congregations of the Baptist family gather across California — 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 25.4%
- Unemployment: 12.2% (6.3–18.2%)
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.5%
- Child Poverty: 26.8% (13.3–40.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 20.6% (12.2–28.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Barstow city is served by 21 churches — about one congregation for every 1,316 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Apostolic Lighthouse of Barstow — 0.1 mi away
- Pentecostal Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- The Potters House CFC Barstow — 0.1 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.3 mi away
- Bilingual Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 1 mi away
- Crossroads Assembly Barstow — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Union Missionary Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Barstow Baptist Temple — 2 mi away
- Grandview Baptist Church — 5 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Hinkley — 10.3 mi away
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