First Union Baptist Church
First Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Fresno, CA 93706. It is one of 559 churches in Fresno, and one of 52 Baptist congregations in the city.
Fresno, CA, 93706First Union 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 Union 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. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 53.9%
- Child Poverty: 49.6% (33.7–65.5%)
- Obesity: 48.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 47.0%
- Poverty Rate: 44.7% (33.5–55.9%)
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 38.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 28.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.1%
- Unemployment: 19.8% (11.0–28.6%)
- Diabetes: 19.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.6%
- Depression: 23.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (7.2–18.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Fresno city is served by 237 churches — about one congregation for every 2,123 residents.
Churches near First Union Baptist Church
- Fresno Temple Church of God in Christ — 0 mi away
- Greater Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Pentecostal — 0.3 mi away
- One Way Community Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Bethel Church of Christ Holiness — 0.4 mi away
- Westside Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Rest Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- ANEW Pearly Grove Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Paul Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Rest Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Corinth Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Mexican Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Rising Star Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away