First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 407 S 3rd St in Wathena, KS 66090. It is one of 8 churches in Wathena.
407 S 3rd St, Wathena, KS, 66090Phone: (785) 989-4654 · Website: http://www.abc-usa.org
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 about a mile of 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 about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 48.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
- Poverty Rate: 30.3% (19.4–41.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 28.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 28.5% (19.1–37.9%)
- Social Isolation: 33.0%
- Depression: 27.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.1%
- Diabetes: 15.7%
- Unemployment: 8.3% (0.0–17.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Tri-Cities Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away in Elwood, KS
- Elwood Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Elwood, KS
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Elwood, KS
- Hope Community Church — 0.9 mi away in Elwood, KS
- Restoration Church — 1.3 mi away in Saint Joseph, MO
- Patee Park Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away in Saint Joseph, MO
- Make12 Church — 1.4 mi away in Saint Joseph, MO
- Grace Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Saint Joseph, MO
- Saint Patrick Catholic Church — 1.5 mi away in Saint Joseph, MO
- Christ Episcopal Church — 1.5 mi away in Saint Joseph, MO
More Baptist churches nearby
- Elwood Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Elwood, KS
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Elwood, KS
- Patee Park Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away in Saint Joseph, MO
- Grace Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Saint Joseph, MO
- First Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Saint Joseph, MO