First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 80 Michigan Avenue East in Battle Creek, MI 49014. It is one of 111 churches in Battle Creek, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.
80 Michigan Avenue East, Battle Creek, MI, 49014Shares a ministry location with Church Of Scientology.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,819 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Michigan — 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 Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 households fear the power or water being shut off. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 49.6%
- Food Insecurity: 32.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
- Depression: 28.3%
- Poverty Rate: 28.0% (19.1–36.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.3%
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Unemployment: 9.2% (4.5–14.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Child Poverty: 27.8% (10.2–45.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Battle Creek city is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 4,247 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Church Of Scientology — 0 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Thomas Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Philip Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.4 mi away
- BC Tabernacle Zomi SDA Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Potter's House Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Harvest Christian Center — 0.5 mi away
- Downtown Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Salem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Seventh Day Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Unity Missionary Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Lakeview Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
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