First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 340 W Main St in Mt Vernon, KY 40456-2976. It is one of 31 churches in Mt Vernon, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.

340 W Main St, Mt Vernon, KY, 40456-2976

Phone: +16062562922 · Website: http://www.fbcmvky.org/

First 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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The community around First Baptist Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of adults live with obesity, 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 43.6% (25.6–61.5%)
  • Obesity: 40.3%
  • Depression: 28.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 23.7% (17.1–30.2%)
  • Diabetes: 16.3%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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