First Baptist Church of Kirksville

First Baptist Church of Kirksville is a Baptist church at 207 East Washington Street in Kirksville, MO 63501. It is one of 50 churches in Kirksville, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.

We exist to magnify the Lord Jesus Christ by making, maturing, and mobilizing disciples.

For more than 150 years, our church has stood as a place where people can worship, grow, and belong.

207 East Washington Street, Kirksville, MO, 63501

Service times

  • Sunday 9:30am · But we encourage you to come early for Small Groups

Website: https://www.firstbaptistkirksville.com/

First Baptist Church of Kirksville 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.

Ministries at First Baptist Church of Kirksville

  • Kids Ministry
  • Small Groups

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The community around First Baptist Church of Kirksville

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. About a third of adults here carry depression, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Poverty Rate: 47.5% (34.6–60.3%)
  • Depression: 32.1%
  • Social Isolation: 37.2%
  • Food Insecurity: 22.2%
  • Unemployment: 11.0% (0.3–22.4%)
  • Obesity: 36.4%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
  • Transportation Barriers: 15.4%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.2%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Kirksville city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 699 residents.

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