First General Baptist Church

First General Baptist Church is a church at 25 E Caster St in Dexter, MO 63841-1708. It is one of 32 churches in Dexter.

25 E Caster St, Dexter, MO, 63841-1708

Phone: +15736243444 · Website: www.dexterchamber.com

First General 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 General Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 33.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 28.6% (17.9–39.3%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
  • Depression: 27.8%
  • Food Insecurity: 20.4%
  • Obesity: 39.3%
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.1%
  • Diabetes: 14.6%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

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