First Progressive Baptist Church
First Progressive Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 10103 Gratiot Avenue in Detroit, MI 48213. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit, and one of 25 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
10103 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit, MI, 48213Service times
- Friday 9am
Phone: (313) 925-9377 · Website: http://firstprogressive.org/
First Progressive 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.
Ministries at First Progressive Baptist Church
- Service Opportunities
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The community around First Progressive Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 51.8%
- Obesity: 50.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.8%
- Poverty Rate: 38.9% (25.5–52.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 36.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 32.4%
- Diabetes: 26.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.7%
- Unemployment: 19.3% (9.0–29.5%)
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.
Churches near First Progressive Baptist Church
- United Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jesus Christ is Our Lord Church — 0.2 mi away
- Baptist Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Miracle of Faith MBC — 0.2 mi away
- New Mount Carmel Tabernacle Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Heavenly Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Tree of Life Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Praise Cathedral of Detroit — 0.5 mi away
- St. Elizabeth Catholic Church Detroit, MI — 0.5 mi away
- Nativity of Our Lord Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Baptist Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Heavenly Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Tree of Life Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- God's Way Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church East — 0.8 mi away