First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1225 Francis Street in Saint Joseph, MO 64501. It is one of 57 churches in Saint Joseph, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
1225 Francis Street, Saint Joseph, MO, 64501Shares a ministry location with Iglesia Bautista Internacional - St Joseph.
First Baptist 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 Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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.
- Obesity: 49.9%
- Poverty Rate: 36.0% (23.5–48.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.2%
- Food Insecurity: 29.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.4% (15.4–33.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.7%
- Social Isolation: 32.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.3%
- Diabetes: 16.4%
- Depression: 26.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%
- Unemployment: 6.0% (1.7–10.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
St. Joseph city is served by 53 churches — about one congregation for every 1,304 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Iglesia Bautista Internacional - St Joseph — 0 mi away in St Joseph, MO
- Calvary Chapel of Saint Joseph — 0.1 mi away
- Francis Street First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Joseph Restoration Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.2 mi away in St Joseph, MO
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Awakening St. Joseph — 0.3 mi away in St Joseph, MO
- Co-Cathedral of Saint Joseph — 0.3 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.3 mi away in St Joseph, MO
- Zion United Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Francis Baptist Temple — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Patee Park Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Savannah Avenue Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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