First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Muncie, IN 47305. It is one of 148 churches in Muncie.
And our goal for this season is to praise and proclaim his name.
Muncie, IN, 47305Service times
Monday - Thursday | 9:00 a.m; Friday | 9:00 a.m; Sundays | 9:00 a.m (as listed)
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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Worship
- Discipleship
- Evangelism
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Latest from First Baptist Church's YouTube channel: Wrestling with God - Genesis 32:22-31 / (Romans 9:1-5) - Good News for All (all videos).
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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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: 50.5% (35.5–66.3%)
- Obesity: 46.4%
- Poverty Rate: 39.9% (28.7–51.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.9%
- Food Insecurity: 34.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.9%
- Diabetes: 19.4%
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Depression: 30.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.2%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (1.7–15.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Muncie city is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 3,983 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Commonway — 0.1 mi away
- The Jar Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Church Parish — 0.1 mi away
- Jar Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- City Hope Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- High Street United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ambassadors of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Blood n' Fire — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Grace Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Union Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Harvest Church — 1.2 mi away
- New Day Baptist Church - Muncie — 2 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church and Christian Academy — 2.1 mi away