First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 219 Main St in Laurel, IN 47024. It is one of 8 churches in Laurel.
219 Main St, Laurel, IN, 47024Phone: (765) 698-2252 · Website: http://www.laurelfbc.com/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,270 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Indiana — 71,418 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
It takes 3.4 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 43.8%
- Social Isolation: 33.6%
- Depression: 27.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.9%
- Food Insecurity: 16.5%
- Diabetes: 14.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.0% (6.9–15.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Little Children Home Church — 3.8 mi away
- Metamora Church of God — 3.9 mi away
- Sanes Creek Church — 3.9 mi away in Connersville, IN
- Garrison Creek Church — 4 mi away in Connersville, IN
- Buena Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
- Chapel Church — 4.3 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Metamora United Methodist Church — 4.6 mi away in Metamora, IN
- Duck Creek Stone Chapel — 4.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Buena Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Connersville Baptist Temple — 10.5 mi away in Connersville, IN
- First Baptist Church of Connersville — 10.7 mi away in Connersville, IN
- First Baptist Church — 11.2 mi away in Brookville, IN