First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Harlan, KY 40831. It is one of 20 churches in Harlan, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
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Harlan, KY, 40831Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,797 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kentucky — 71,417 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
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 42.5%
- Depression: 29.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
- Poverty Rate: 22.2% (15.6–28.9%)
- Diabetes: 15.7%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (3.0–16.3%)
- Child Poverty: 25.1% (13.8–36.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Harlan Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Harlan United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Harlan Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Harvest Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Pansy Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Harlan Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ Clover Street — 0.5 mi away
- Kelly Street Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Harlan Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pansy Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Harlan Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kelly Street Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Sunshine Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away