First Baptist Church of Lamar
First Baptist Church of Lamar is a Baptist church at 1301 East 6th Street in Lamar, MO 64759. It is one of 30 churches in Lamar.
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 East 6th Street, Lamar, MO, 64759Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8am
Phone: +1 417 682 3538 · Website: https://www.fbclamar.org/
First Baptist Church of Lamar 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.
Find First Baptist Church of Lamar on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around First Baptist Church of Lamar
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: 31.9% (21.7–42.2%)
- 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.
Lamar city is served by 3 churches — about one congregation for every 1,601 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Lamar
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Full Gospel Tabernacle — 0.7 mi away
- Liberty Baptist-Lamar — 0.7 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Lamar Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 1 mi away
- Lamar First Assembly — 1 mi away
- Lamar Family Ministries Center — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Liberty Baptist-Lamar — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away
- Sheldon Baptist Church — 11.1 mi away in Sheldon, MO
- Baptist Church First — 12.2 mi away in Jasper, MO