First Baptist Church of Back River
First Baptist Church of Back River is a Baptist church at 1613 Hopewell Avenue in Essex, MD 21221. It is one of 49 churches in Essex, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
1613 Hopewell Avenue, Essex, MD, 21221Website: http://firstbaptistbackriver.org/
First Baptist Church of Back River is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 993 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Maryland — 71,418 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 Back River
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,400 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.
- Food Insecurity: 26.7%
- Social Isolation: 38.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
- Obesity: 39.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Diabetes: 14.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
- Unemployment: 6.7% (1.3–12.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Back River
- Saint Stephen's African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ssame Church — 0.2 mi away
- Comunidad Cristiana Palabra Viva — 0.5 mi away
- Mars Hill Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away in Baltimore, MD
- God’s Will Apostolic Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Living Epistles Worship Center — 0.7 mi away
- Word of Life Chapel International — 0.7 mi away
- Universal Gospel Tabernacle — 0.7 mi away
- Iglesia la luz verdadera — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mars Hill Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Essex — 1.5 mi away