First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Sturgis, MI 49091. It is one of 35 churches in Sturgis, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Sturgis, MI, 49091First 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 Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,200 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.
- Social Isolation: 33.9%
- Depression: 28.2%
- Obesity: 38.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.7%
- Food Insecurity: 19.0%
- Poverty Rate: 16.4% (9.6–23.1%)
- Unemployment: 6.2% (1.6–10.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Sturgis city is served by 18 churches — about one congregation for every 355 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Sturgis Church of the Nazarene — 0.1 mi away
- Fawn River Missionary Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sturgis Evangelical Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.6 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- Holy Angels Catholic Church — 1 mi away
- Sturgis Foursquare Church — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Gracepoint Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Sturgis Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Lagrange Baptist Church — 8.4 mi away in Lagrange, IN
- Fountain Church — 10 mi away in Lagrange, IN
- Centreville Baptist Church — 11.5 mi away in Centreville, MI