First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2201 Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, CA 94612. It is one of 485 churches in Oakland, and one of 80 Baptist congregations in the city.

2201 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA, 94612

First 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 — 71,418 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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.

  • Social Isolation: 41.8%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.3%
  • Food Insecurity: 21.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 18.5% (12.2–24.8%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.0%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%
  • Unemployment: 6.9% (1.5–12.3%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Oakland city is served by 272 churches — about one congregation for every 1,609 residents.

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