First Chinese Baptist Church
First Chinese Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Fresno, CA 93706. It is one of 558 churches in Fresno, and one of 66 Baptist congregations in the city.
In 1945, the First Chinese Baptist Church was organized and in 1962, a new sanctuary was built next to the old church.
Serving since 1962
Fresno, CA, 93706Service times
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8:30am
- Tuesday, Thursday 9am
Shares a ministry location with Carter Memorial AME Church.
First Chinese Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,843 congregations of the Baptist family gather across California — 71,417 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 Chinese Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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.
- Child Poverty: 61.1% (45.6–76.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 50.6%
- Obesity: 48.3%
- Poverty Rate: 46.9% (32.8–61.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.8%
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.0%
- Unemployment: 20.1% (11.1–29.2%)
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (6.4–17.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Fresno city is served by 237 churches — about one congregation for every 2,123 residents.
Churches near First Chinese Baptist Church
- Carter Memorial AME Church — 0 mi away
- Glory Bound Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- El Tabernaculo — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Evangelica — 0.1 mi away
- The Hills Tulare Street — 0.2 mi away
- Universal Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Beginnings Apostolic Assembly Church — 0.2 mi away
- House of Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- CORANB — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
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- The Hills Tulare Street — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Joseph Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rising Star Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away