First General Baptist Church

First General Baptist Church is a Independent Baptist church at 1801 N Main St in Poplar Bluff, MO 63901-3125. It is one of 91 churches in Poplar Bluff.

1801 N Main St, Poplar Bluff, MO, 63901-3125

Phone: +15737855261 · Website: http://garbc.org

First General 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 General Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Obesity: 41.4%
  • Social Isolation: 33.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 20.8%
  • Unemployment: 9.6% (3.5–16.3%)
  • Child Poverty: 27.2% (12.8–42.1%)
  • Depression: 26.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 18.2% (10.5–25.8%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
  • Diabetes: 14.8%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (9.2–17.9%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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