First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 69 Iotla St in Franklin, NC 28734-2914. It is one of 87 churches in Franklin.
69 Iotla St, Franklin, NC, 28734-2914Phone: +18283699559 · Website: http://www.fbcfranklin.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,587 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 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
Within about a mile of this church, nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. About 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance, 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 22.4% (10.7–34.1%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.0% (9.2–22.8%)
- Obesity: 36.7%
- Social Isolation: 31.8%
- Depression: 26.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
- Food Insecurity: 18.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
- Diabetes: 13.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- All Saints Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Biltmore Students - Franklin Campus — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Franklin Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Son Rise Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Resurrection Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Grace Presbyterian Church — 1 mi away
- Bethlehem Church — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Biltmore Students - Franklin Campus — 0.1 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Longview Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- South Macon Baptist Church — 4 mi away
- Mt Hope Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
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