Where is First Baptist Church located?

First Baptist Church is at 1005 East Ave, Baxter Springs, KS, 66713-1600.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Baxter Springs, KS is a Baptist church.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1005 East Ave in Baxter Springs, KS 66713-1600. It is one of 14 churches in Baxter Springs.

Part of Southern Baptist Convention

1005 East Ave, Baxter Springs, KS, 66713-1600

Phone: (620) 856-5676 · Website: https://www.firstbaptistbaxter.com/

First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 663 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kansas — 71,417 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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

Obesity: 46.2%
Social Isolation: 32.4%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
Food Insecurity: 20.9%
Depression: 24.2%
Poverty Rate: 18.0% (11.5–24.5%)
Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
Diabetes: 14.6%
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.4% (9.4–19.3%)
Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near First Baptist Church

First United Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
United Methodist Church Baxter Springs — 0.2 mi away
First Assembly Of God — 0.2 mi away
New Beginnings Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
Elm Christian Church — 0.6 mi away in Edna, KS
Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
Bethel Community Church — 0.7 mi away
First Christian Church — 1.3 mi away
Crossroads Christian Church — 1.9 mi away

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