First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Leesburg, FL 34748. It is one of 113 churches in Leesburg, and one of 21 Baptist congregations in the city.
Leesburg, FL, 34748Website: https://firstleesburg.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,719 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Florida — 71,420 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 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 45.5%
- Poverty Rate: 34.7% (24.8–44.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.3%
- Unemployment: 23.9% (14.7–33.1%)
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.6% (11.5–25.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Leesburg city is served by 50 churches — about one congregation for every 204 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- Central Baptist Church of Leesburg — 0.2 mi away
- Main Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Alliance Missionary Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Morrison United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Sanctuary of Praise and Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Lakes — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Chapel of Leesburg — 0.4 mi away
- Berea Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Central Baptist Church of Leesburg — 0.2 mi away
- Main Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Berea Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Hope Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Hampton Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away