First Born Church

The community around First Born Church

It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Obesity: 40.8%
• Child Poverty: 39.1% (23.0–55.8%)
• Social Isolation: 38.5%
• Poverty Rate: 28.5% (18.0–39.0%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
• Food Insecurity: 24.6%
• Diabetes: 15.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.7%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.5% (8.6–20.3%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.1%

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

Churches near First Born Church

• Refuge Temple SDA Church — 0.3 mi away
• Heavenly Heights Church — 0.4 mi away
• Refuge Temple Seven Day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
• New Bryant Missionary — 0.5 mi away
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.6 mi away
• Lakeland Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
• Lakeland Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
• Union Primitive Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• Lakeland United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away