First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Hays, KS 67601. It is one of 31 churches in Hays, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
We are a group of people who love God and strive daily to live a life in service to our Lord.
Hays, KS, 67601First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 663 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kansas — 71,419 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 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 33.1% (22.8–43.3%)
- Social Isolation: 35.0%
- Food Insecurity: 20.4%
- Obesity: 39.9%
- Depression: 24.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Hays city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 682 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- St Joseph's Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
- Comeau Catholic Campus Center — 0.4 mi away
- Liberty Foursquare Church — 0.5 mi away
- Messiah Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Old Paths Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- Centennial Boulevard Church of Christ — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Old Paths Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Cornerstone Southern Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- High Plains Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- CrossPoint Hays — 2.2 mi away
- Ellis Baptist Church — 13.1 mi away in Ellis, KS