First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 212 Bedford St in Cumberland, MD 21502-1701. It is one of 103 churches in Cumberland, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
God's hand of goodness and faithfulness has been clearly evident in the life of this ministry, located in the mountains of Western Maryland.
212 Bedford St, Cumberland, MD, 21502-1701Phone: (301) 777-0668 · Website: https://eckhartbaptist.org/about/history
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 993 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Maryland — 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Children's Ministry
- Youth Ministry
- Young Adults
- Women's Ministry
- Men's Ministry
- Missions
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. About 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 31.1% (21.9–40.4%)
- Unemployment: 15.4% (8.2–22.5%)
- Social Isolation: 34.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
- Depression: 27.3%
- Food Insecurity: 23.4%
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Obesity: 39.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Metropolitan AME Church — 0.1 mi away
- Town Clock Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Patrick Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Centre Street United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Friendship Haven Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Town Clock Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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