First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Chanute, KS 66720. It is one of 41 churches in Chanute, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Chanute, KS, 66720First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 677 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kansas — 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
- Food Distribution
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Latest from FBC Chanute's YouTube channel: Sunday Morning Praise Rally 8/2/26 (10:27AM) (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
In the few miles around 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 of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 41.0%
- Social Isolation: 30.5%
- Child Poverty: 23.1% (9.0–37.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.3%
- Poverty Rate: 19.9% (12.3–27.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (7.5–22.4%)
- Diabetes: 13.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (1.4–11.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grant Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Temple — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Bible Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Fellowship Tabernacle — 0.4 mi away
- Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Grant Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Bible Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Blessed Hope Bible Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away