First Southern Baptist Church
First Southern Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church at 250 Kern St in Shafter, CA 93263-2128. It is one of 27 churches in Shafter.
250 Kern St, Shafter, CA, 93263-2128Service times
- Sunday 10:45am · Morning Worship
Phone: +16617466774 · Website: https://www.fsbcshafter.org/
First Southern 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 Southern Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 26.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Child Poverty: 30.5% (18.3–42.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.8%
- Poverty Rate: 25.3% (18.1–32.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.9% (14.5–24.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.3%
- Unemployment: 6.7% (2.9–10.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Southern Baptist Church
- Shafter Mennonite Brethren Church — 0.1 mi away
- Home Fellowship Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Gathering @ Shafter — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- Congregational Baptist Church of Shafter — 0.2 mi away
- Free Will Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ebenezer Reformed Church — 0.3 mi away
- Shafter Christian Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- Window of Heaven — 0.4 mi away
- La Rosa De Saron Assembly of God — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Congregational Baptist Church of Shafter — 0.2 mi away
- Shafter Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Truelight Missionary Baptist Church — 6.5 mi away in Wasco, CA
- First Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away in Wasco, CA
- Griffith Avenue Baptist Church — 7.3 mi away in Wasco, CA
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