First Bapist Church

First Bapist Church is a Baptist church in Mountain View, MO 65548. It is one of 16 churches in Mountain View.

Mountain View, MO, 65548

First Bapist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,663 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Missouri — 71,417 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 Bapist Church

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

  • Social Isolation: 32.7%
  • Child Poverty: 30.2% (17.6–42.8%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
  • Depression: 27.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 26.0% (19.2–32.8%)
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.6% (12.9–24.3%)
  • Diabetes: 15.5%
  • Obesity: 36.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 19.8%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%

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

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