First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Rocky Ford, CO 81067. It is one of 18 churches in Rocky Ford.
Rocky Ford, CO, 81067First 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
It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Poverty Rate: 34.6% (23.7–45.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.6%
- Diabetes: 19.4%
- Obesity: 39.6%
- Child Poverty: 29.6% (13.9–45.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Freewill Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Brethren — 0.2 mi away
- Community Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Immanuel Missionary Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Full Gospel Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rocky Ford Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Peter Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Peters Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sovereign Grace Bible Church — 0.6 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 8 mi away in La Junta, CO
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 10.2 mi away in La Junta, CO
- Carson Avenue Baptist Church — 10.4 mi away in La Junta, CO
- La Junta Baptist Tabernacle — 10.6 mi away in La Junta, CO
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