First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 739 E 7th St in Carthage, MO 64836. It is one of 60 churches in Carthage.
739 E 7th St, Carthage, MO, 64836Phone: (417) 359-8753 · Website: https://www.fbccarthage.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,662 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Missouri — 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 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Child Poverty: 47.4% (32.2–62.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.1%
- Poverty Rate: 30.8% (16.3–45.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 25.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.5% (15.4–25.6%)
- Obesity: 43.1%
- Social Isolation: 33.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.6%
- Diabetes: 16.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.2%
- Depression: 25.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Iglesia Cristiana Principe De Paz — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Ann’s Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Bridge A Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Pentecostés — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Carthage — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Carthage — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church Carthage — 0.6 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Forest Park Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away