First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church at 1301 E 6th St in Lamar, MO 64759-2615. It is one of 30 churches in Lamar.
The purpose of First Baptist Church, Lamar through the leadership of the Holy Spirit is to reach upward through worship, inward through discipleship, and outward through evangelism, as we seek to minister and fellowship with one another.
The mission of First Baptist Church, Lamar as ministers of Christ is to worship God, disciple the believer, and reach the nonbeliever as we grow together through fellowship and service.
1301 E 6th St, Lamar, MO, 64759-2615Service times
- Friday 8am
Phone: 14176823538 · Website: https://www.fbclamar.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
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 32.2% (21.9–42.4%)
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
- Food Insecurity: 20.4%
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Social Isolation: 31.1%
- Depression: 26.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Full Gospel Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- Liberty Baptist-Lamar — 0.7 mi away
- The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church — 0.8 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Lamar — 0.9 mi away
- Lamar First Assembly — 0.9 mi away
- Lamar Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Lamar Family Ministries Center — 1.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 1.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Liberty Baptist-Lamar — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Lamar — 0.9 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 6 mi away
- Baptist Church First — 11.3 mi away in Jasper, MO
- Sheldon Baptist Church — 11.9 mi away in Sheldon, MO