First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in La Junta, CO 81050. It is one of 29 churches in La Junta, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
La Junta, CO, 81050Shares a ministry location with Calvary Church La Junta.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 494 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Colorado — 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 about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 40.6% (21.8–59.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
- Poverty Rate: 26.2% (17.0–35.4%)
- Depression: 23.1%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
- Unemployment: 7.4% (2.3–12.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
La Junta city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 233 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Calvary Church La Junta — 0 mi away
- La Junta Baptist Tabernacle — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Cross St Andrew Lutheran — 0.2 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- The United Methodist Church of La Junta — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Christ, Scientist — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hubbard Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- La Junta Baptist Tabernacle — 0.1 mi away
- Carson Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 10.7 mi away in Rocky Ford, CO