First United Baptist Church
First United Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 821 South Burdick Street in Kalamazoo, MI 49001. It is one of 171 churches in Kalamazoo, and one of 10 Baptist congregations in the city.
821 South Burdick Street, Kalamazoo, MI, 49001Phone: (269) 381-3996 · Website: http://www.fubconline.org/
First United 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 — 71,418 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 United Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of adults here carry depression, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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.
- Child Poverty: 85.1%
- Depression: 32.1%
- Poverty Rate: 31.0% (21.0–41.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 25.3%
- Obesity: 43.5%
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.5%
- Unemployment: 10.7% (1.9–19.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Kalamazoo city is served by 26 churches — about one congregation for every 2,845 residents.
Churches near First United Baptist Church
- St Luke's Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Radiant City Center — 0.5 mi away
- Faith Temple Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.6 mi away
- Messiah Sing Kalamazoo — 0.6 mi away
- Phoenix Community Church UCC — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Converge Community — 1.9 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Victory Baptist — 3.7 mi away in Portage, MI
- 12th Street Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
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