First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Taft, CA 93268. It is one of 36 churches in Taft, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Empower And Encourage Our Community With The Love Of Christ
Taft, CA, 93268Service times
- Sunday 9am · in Gathering Room
First 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 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Child Poverty: 49.2% (33.3–65.1%)
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Food Insecurity: 20.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.0%
- Depression: 25.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
- Poverty Rate: 19.2% (11.0–27.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Taft city is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 461 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Samoan Assembly of God — 0 mi away
- Oasis Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Laborers of the Harvest Church — 0.2 mi away
- Taft Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Templo Agua Viva — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal M.I. Taft — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Andrews Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Southern Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Ford City Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Community Baptist Church — 17.9 mi away
- Second Community Baptist Church — 18 mi away
- First Southern Baptist Church — 18 mi away