First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Santa Cruz, CA 95062. It is one of 62 churches in Santa Cruz, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Santa Cruz, CA, 95062Shares a ministry location with Santa Cruz Community Church.
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 — 71,417 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 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 34.0%
- Depression: 23.9%
- Poverty Rate: 17.8% (10.6–25.1%)
- Unemployment: 6.4% (2.9–10.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Santa Cruz city is served by 30 churches — about one congregation for every 1,831 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Santa Cruz Community Church — 0 mi away
- Santa Cruz Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Society of Friends Meeting House — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Stephens Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Santa Cruz First Church of the Nazarene — 0.7 mi away
- Faith Community Church — 0.7 mi away
- Central Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Star of the Sea Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Santa Cruz Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Gospel Community Church — 1 mi away
- Bayside Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- PMBC Church — 2 mi away
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