First Baptist Church Carthage
First Baptist Church Carthage is a Baptist church at 631 South Garrison Avenue in Carthage, MO 64836. It is one of 60 churches in Carthage, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
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631 South Garrison Avenue, Carthage, MO, 64836Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School groups for all ages
Phone: (417) 358-8161 · Website: https://www.fbccarthage.org/
First Baptist Church Carthage 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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Latest from FBC Carthage's YouTube channel: Matthew 28:18-20 "The Mission of the Church" (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church Carthage
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: 46.1% (31.3–60.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.9%
- Poverty Rate: 30.2% (18.1–42.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 25.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.7% (15.2–26.2%)
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 33.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.0%
- Diabetes: 15.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.5%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Carthage city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 1,334 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church Carthage
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Bridge A Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Carthage Family Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Pentecostés — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Ann’s Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Carthage — 0.8 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Forest Park Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away