Free Will Baptist Church
Free Will 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, 93257Free Will 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 Free Will 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. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.1%
- Food Insecurity: 28.9%
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.5%
- Poverty Rate: 16.8% (6.3–27.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.3%
- Diabetes: 13.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Porterville city is served by 39 churches — about one congregation for every 1,512 residents.
Churches near Free Will Baptist Church
- Cornerstone Assembly of God — 0.4 mi away
- CDA Cristo te Ama Porterville — 0.4 mi away
- Family Christian Center — 0.4 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Fellowship Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bethesda Lutheran Communities — 0.7 mi away
- Grand Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- La Mision De Jesus — 0.9 mi away
- Country Salvation Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Southern Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Henderson Avenue Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
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