Village First Baptist Church
Village First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gary, IN 46404. It is one of 275 churches in Gary, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gary, IN, 46404Village First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,291 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Indiana — 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 Village First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 67.9% (50.4–85.4%)
- Obesity: 52.0%
- Food Insecurity: 42.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.2%
- Poverty Rate: 36.9% (25.5–48.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.1%
- Diabetes: 25.6%
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.9%
- Unemployment: 8.2% (3.3–13.3%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (7.5–17.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Gary city is served by 184 churches — about one congregation for every 375 residents.
Churches near Village First Baptist Church
- Lively Stone Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Clark Road Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Prayer Tower Fellowship Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pleasant Valley Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Beth-Eden Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Wonder Working Word Church — 0.6 mi away
- Davis Memorial AMEC — 0.7 mi away
- St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Wildwood Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- New Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Clark Road Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pleasant Valley Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Beth-Eden Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away