First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Elwood, KS 66024. It is one of 4 churches in Elwood, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Elwood, KS, 66024First 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.
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The community around First Baptist Church
In the few miles around 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 adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. 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.
- Obesity: 46.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.6% (15.1–30.1%)
- Social Isolation: 32.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
- Depression: 27.0%
- Poverty Rate: 26.3% (16.2–36.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 24.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.7%
- Child Poverty: 23.6% (9.5–37.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.3%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Elwood Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Wathena, KS
- Tri-Cities Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Hope Community Church — 0.8 mi away
- Restoration Church — 1.4 mi away in Saint Joseph, MO
- Make12 Church — 1.6 mi away in Saint Joseph, MO
- North Church of God — 1.6 mi away in St Joseph, MO
- Christ Episcopal Church — 1.7 mi away in Saint Joseph, MO
- First Presbyterian Church — 1.7 mi away in Saint Joseph, MO
- Patee Park Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Saint Joseph, MO
More Baptist churches nearby
- Elwood Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Patee Park Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Saint Joseph, MO
- Grace Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away in Saint Joseph, MO
- First Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Saint Joseph, MO
- Savannah Avenue Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Saint Joseph, MO