First Baptist Church of Fort Walton Beach
First Baptist Church of Fort Walton Beach is a church at 126 Harbeson Ave SE in Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548-5537. It is one of 68 churches in Fort Walton Beach.
126 Harbeson Ave SE, Fort Walton Beach, FL, 32548-5537Phone: +18502433163 · Website: http://www.fbcfwb.org/
First Baptist Church of Fort Walton Beach 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 of Fort Walton Beach
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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: 31.0% (23.1–38.8%)
- Child Poverty: 34.3% (18.7–49.8%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.2% (13.4–25.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (4.3–9.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Fort Walton Beach
- Greater Peace Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Fort Walton Beach First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gregg Chapel AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Peace Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Striving For Perfection Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
- Hollywood Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Simon's on the Sound Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Upper Room Church of Living — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Beulah First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Cinco Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Grace Church FWB — 1.6 mi away
- Westwood Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Ocean City Church — 2.5 mi away
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