First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 307 E Broadway St in Fort Meade, FL 33841-3011. It is one of 30 churches in Fort Meade, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
The mission of the First Baptist Church of Fort Meade, as ordained by God, led by Jesus Christ, and inspired by the Holy Spirit, is to: † Reach people with the gospel message of Christ’s mercy, † Embrace them into the body of believers, † Nurture their growth to maturity in the faith, † Equip them t
Services in Spanish
307 E Broadway St, Fort Meade, FL, 33841-3011Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School
Phone: +18632857151 · Website: https://www.fbcfortmeade.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,713 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Florida — 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 adults live with obesity. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 45.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.6% (10.4–28.8%)
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Poverty Rate: 20.5% (9.0–32.1%)
- Unemployment: 7.1% (1.4–12.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Christ Church — 0 mi away
- Christ Church Episcopal — 0.1 mi away
- Living Faith Christian Center — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- My Fort Meade First — 0.3 mi away
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios Pentecostal M.I. Renacer — 0.3 mi away
- Cornerstone Church — 0.4 mi away
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