First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Blythe, CA 92225. It is one of 29 churches in Blythe, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Blythe, CA, 92225Website: http://www.fbcblythe.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 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.9%
- Food Insecurity: 32.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.9%
- Obesity: 41.8%
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Child Poverty: 34.1% (18.1–50.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
- Poverty Rate: 24.9% (15.5–34.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.4%
- Unemployment: 11.8% (3.9–19.6%)
- Depression: 23.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Blythe city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 1,083 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Calvary Chapel of Blythe — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Templo El Siloe — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.3 mi away
- Community United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Potters House of Blythe — 0.3 mi away
- Blythe Central Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater White Rose Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Blythe Church of God — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Southern Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Freewill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 21.7 mi away in Quartzsite, AZ