First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Porterville, CA 93257. It is one of 88 churches in Porterville, and one of 10 Baptist congregations in the city.
Porterville, CA, 93257First 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 38.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.9%
- Social Isolation: 38.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.0%
- Diabetes: 15.6%
- Unemployment: 8.0% (4.3–11.8%)
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Depression: 23.8%
- Poverty Rate: 21.8% (15.8–27.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Porterville city is served by 39 churches — about one congregation for every 1,512 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.1 mi away
- Porterville Believers Church — 0.1 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Emanuel Evangelical Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Miracle Cathedral — 0.1 mi away
- God Witness New Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Unitarian Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- St John's Anglican Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Free Will Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Mountain View Southern Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Landmark Missionary Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
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