First Park Memorial Baptist Church
First Park Memorial Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Springfield, MA 01108. It is one of 196 churches in Springfield, and one of 18 Baptist congregations in the city.
Springfield, MA, 01108Shares a ministry location with Straitway to Heaven Church of God in Christ.
First Park Memorial Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 468 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Massachusetts — 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 Park Memorial Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Child Poverty: 72.4% (54.1–90.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 41.1% (28.3–53.9%)
- Social Isolation: 40.6%
- Food Insecurity: 37.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.6%
- Obesity: 41.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.7%
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Depression: 26.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Springfield city is served by 95 churches — about one congregation for every 1,634 residents.
Churches near First Park Memorial Baptist Church
- Straitway to Heaven Church of God in Christ — 0 mi away
- Iglesia Seguidores De Cristo — 0.2 mi away
- Centro Cristiano Nacion de Jesus — 0.2 mi away
- Faith United Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary's Love Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Barnabas and All Saints Church — 0.3 mi away
- Presbyterian Church of Ghana Springfield MA Congregation — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Dwelling Place Church MA — 0.4 mi away
- All Nations Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- The Morning Star Church — 1.3 mi away
- Third Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Alden Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Progressive Community Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
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