First Baptist Church of Newport
First Baptist Church of Newport is a Baptist church in Newport, KY 41071. It is one of 23 churches in Newport, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Newport, KY, 41071First Baptist Church of Newport 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 of Newport
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,300 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: 41.6%
- Depression: 28.1%
- Poverty Rate: 27.4% (15.3–39.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (1.4–18.1%)
- Diabetes: 13.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.0% (2.4–19.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Newport city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 855 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Newport
- Love and Faith Fellowship Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Hope Christian Center — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Spirit Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Movement Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Mark Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Pauls Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- New Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Second Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Brighton Street Baptist Chapel — 0.5 mi away
- Ninth Street Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Covington, KY
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Covington, KY