First Missionary Baptist Church
First Missionary Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church in Benton, KY 42025. It is one of 57 churches in Benton, and one of 5 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
Benton, KY, 42025Phone: (270) 527-7615 · Website: http://www.firstmissionary.net/
First Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,781 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kentucky — 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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Latest from First Missionary - Benton, KY's YouTube channel: When the Hammer Falls / Sunday / 08.02.26 (all videos).
The community around First Missionary Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Child Poverty: 48.1% (31.7–65.6%)
- Depression: 28.1%
- Obesity: 39.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.3%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Missionary Baptist Church
- Benton First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Three Crosses Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Mark's Anglican Church — 1 mi away
- Church Grove Church — 1.3 mi away
- Church Grove United Methodist — 1.3 mi away
- First Christian Church — 1.3 mi away
- Walnut Street Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Benton Church Of The Nazarene — 1.7 mi away
- Benton Church of Christ — 1.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Walnut Street Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- First Baptist Church Benton — 2.2 mi away
- New Zion Church — 3.2 mi away
- Vanzora Church — 4.7 mi away