West Fresno Baptist Church
West Fresno Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1400 E Saginaw Way, Fresno, CA, 93704 in Fresno, CA 93706. It is one of 559 churches in Fresno, and one of 52 Baptist congregations in the city.
We are a church in the heart of Fresno, with a heart for Fresno filled with incredible and imperfect people of all backgrounds and ages, regardless of where they are in life’s journey.
1400 E Saginaw Way, Fresno, CA, 93704, Fresno, CA, 93706Service times
- Sunday 10am · Mornings
Phone: (559) 227-8478 · Website: http://www.fresnofirst.org/
West Fresno 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 West Fresno 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 adults live with obesity, and nearly half 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.
- Obesity: 47.2%
- Food Insecurity: 46.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.4%
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Poverty Rate: 39.4% (26.0–52.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 34.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.4%
- Unemployment: 19.6% (9.2–29.9%)
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Fresno city is served by 237 churches — about one congregation for every 2,123 residents.
Churches near West Fresno Baptist Church
- Ephesians Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Alphonsus Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- All Nations House of Prayer Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Feed My Sheep Ministry — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Joseph Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Beginnings Apostolic Assembly Church — 0.6 mi away
- House of Zion Church — 0.6 mi away
- Fresno Community Church of God — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Joseph Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Chinese Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Evangelica — 0.8 mi away