First Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church is a church at 509 South Pearl Avenue in Joplin, MO 64801. It is one of 124 churches in Joplin.
509 South Pearl Avenue, Joplin, MO, 64801Website: https://fpcjoplin.com/
Shares a ministry location with Church of the Cross Joplin.
First Presbyterian Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story. 218 congregations of the Presbyterian family gather across Missouri — 11,638 across the United States on The Church Map.
Presbyterians gave American Christianity much of its backbone: seminaries, catechisms, and shared government by elders rather than by one man, a habit that shaped the country's civic life as much as its churches. They have been among the most persistent builders of colleges, hospitals, and mission agencies this nation has.
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The community around First Presbyterian Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Obesity: 45.4%
- Poverty Rate: 36.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
- Food Insecurity: 29.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.6% (15.9–27.3%)
- Child Poverty: 39.1% (19.8–58.4%)
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Depression: 29.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.5%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 10.2% (4.6–15.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Joplin city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 2,033 residents.
Churches near First Presbyterian Church
- Church of the Cross Joplin — 0 mi away
- Joplin Chapter DeMolay — 0.1 mi away
- Joplin First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Traders Church — 0.2 mi away
- Joplin First Church — 0.2 mi away
- CCC Saturday Night Live — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Philip's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Traders Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
More Presbyterian churches nearby
- Bethany Presbyterian Church — 1.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 4.9 mi away in Webb City, MO
- Christ the King Presbyterian Church — 5.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 12.8 mi away in Carthage, MO
- First Presbyterian Church — 16.8 mi away in Neosho, MO