First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church in Buffalo, MO 65622. It is one of 29 churches in Buffalo.
Buffalo, MO, 65622First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,663 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Missouri — 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
It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Child Poverty: 32.8% (14.4–51.1%)
- Poverty Rate: 26.1% (15.8–36.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.9%
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Social Isolation: 30.4%
- Depression: 25.6%
- Food Insecurity: 16.5%
- Diabetes: 15.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Assembly of God — 0.2 mi away
- Buffalo Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Our Savior Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Full Gospel Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint William's Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Williams — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Community Church Buffalo, MO — 0.5 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Legacy Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Urbana First Baptist — 14.1 mi away in Urbana, MO
- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 15.6 mi away in Bolivar, MO
- Hopewell Freewill Baptist Church — 16.2 mi away in Tunas, MO