First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Emporia, KS 66801. It is one of 63 churches in Emporia, and one of 9 Baptist congregations in the city.
First Baptist Church of Emporia is an American Baptist Church,We participate in Communion the 1st Sunday of each month.
Emporia, KS, 66801First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 663 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kansas — 71,420 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live 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: 40.0%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Poverty Rate: 29.2% (19.5–38.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 24.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.4% (9.4–21.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
- Child Poverty: 23.1% (4.1–42.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Emporia city is served by 34 churches — about one congregation for every 551 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Saint Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Centro Cristiano De Emporia — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Evangelical United Brethren Church — 0.1 mi away
- Emporia Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Christ Science — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Andrews Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Centro Cristiano De Emporia — 0.1 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Southern Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Christ Church Emporia — 1.2 mi away