First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 500 Nebraska Avenue in Kansas City, KS 66101. It is one of 325 churches in Kansas City, and one of 39 Baptist congregations in the city.
500 Nebraska Avenue, Kansas City, KS, 66101Phone: (913) 371-6624 · Website: http://www.kcfirstbaptistchurch.com/
First 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
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third 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: 47.5%
- Food Insecurity: 39.7%
- Poverty Rate: 38.4% (26.9–49.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.6% (17.9–31.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.7%
- Diabetes: 18.8%
- Unemployment: 13.4% (6.3–20.6%)
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Child Poverty: 36.5% (23.0–50.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Kansas City city is served by 142 churches — about one congregation for every 1,094 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Iglesia Universal — 0.1 mi away
- Mason Temple Institutional Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Peace and Fellowship Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pleasant Green Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Hmong CMA Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Union Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First A.M.E. Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Ame Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pleasant Green Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Union Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Eighth Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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