First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 518 North Franklin Avenue in Madison, WI 53705. It is one of 203 churches in Madison, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
The mission of First Baptist Church of Madison is to follow Jesus by doing justice, loving people, and advocating for equity.
Wheelchair accessible
518 North Franklin Avenue, Madison, WI, 53705Website: https://firstbaptistmadison.org/
Shares a ministry location with Madison Seventh Day Baptist.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 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.
- Poverty Rate: 24.2%
- Social Isolation: 31.9%
- Depression: 26.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Madison city is served by 88 churches — about one congregation for every 2,880 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Madison Seventh Day Baptist — 0 mi away
- First Unitarian Society — 0.2 mi away
- Centro Cristiano — 0.5 mi away
- Geneva Campus Church — 0.5 mi away
- Madison Immanuel Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Blessed Sacrament Church — 0.8 mi away
- Bethany United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Olive Lutheran Church Lcms — 0.9 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.9 mi away
- the church in Madison — 0.9 mi away