First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 400 N Main St in Farmerville, LA 71241-2116. It is one of 39 churches in Farmerville, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Throughout the past 168 years of its ministry, First Baptist Church has sought to be a lighthouse to the community and to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ locally, state-wide, in the United States, and around the world.
First Baptist Church has a long list of pastors who have served since its inception.
Serving since 1847 · Part of Concord-Union Association
400 N Main St, Farmerville, LA, 71241-2116Service times
- Sunday 9:45am · School
Phone: +13183683848 · Website: https://fbcfarmerville.com/watch-services-live.html
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,388 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 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. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 96.1%
- Poverty Rate: 57.2%
- Food Insecurity: 46.2%
- Obesity: 45.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.7%
- Diabetes: 25.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.0%
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.2%
- Unemployment: 11.0% (3.9–18.0%)
- Depression: 25.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church Family Life — 0.1 mi away
- Farmerville Church Of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Farmerville United Methodist — 0.2 mi away
- Franklin Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Blooming Grove Baptist — 0.7 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Farmerville First Assembly — 0.8 mi away
- Farmerville Church of God — 0.8 mi away
- Eagle Point Church UPC — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Blooming Grove Baptist — 0.7 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Crestview Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Union Parish, LA
- Antioch Baptist Church — 7.9 mi away
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