First Free Will Baptist Church
First Free Will Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Benton Harbor, MI 49022. It is one of 72 churches in Benton Harbor, and one of 16 Baptist congregations in the city.
Benton Harbor, MI, 49022First Free Will Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,851 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Michigan — 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 Free Will Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 46.1%
- Food Insecurity: 30.5%
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Child Poverty: 31.5% (14.7–48.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.5%
- Poverty Rate: 28.0% (17.1–38.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.0%
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.5%
- Depression: 26.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.4%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (1.5–12.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Benton charter township is served by 40 churches — about one congregation for every 313 residents.
Churches near First Free Will Baptist Church
- Calvary Bible Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary's Lighthouse Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of God — 1 mi away in Benton Heights, MI
- New Horizons Outreach Ministry — 1.1 mi away
- General Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Twelve Corners Community Church — 1.3 mi away
- Iglesia Aun Hay Esperanza — 1.5 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Mission Church — 1.7 mi away
- First Church of God — 1.7 mi away
- Benton Heights Church of God — 1.7 mi away in Benton Heights, MI
More Baptist churches nearby
- General Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Mission Church — 1.7 mi away
- Unity Bible Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Saint Matthews Missionary Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Benton Heights, MI
- Christian Light Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away in Benton Heights, MI
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