First Samuel Baptist Church

First Samuel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 619 South 16th Street in Louisville, KY 40203. It is one of 840 churches in Louisville, and one of 156 Baptist congregations in the city.

619 South 16th Street, Louisville, KY, 40203

First Samuel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,781 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kentucky — 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 Samuel Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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: 70.9% (52.5–89.3%)
  • Obesity: 49.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 35.5% (25.3–45.7%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
  • Diabetes: 19.6%
  • Unemployment: 10.4% (3.0–17.9%)
  • Depression: 23.9%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Louisville city is served by 321 churches — about one congregation for every 729 residents.

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