First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Afton, NY 13730. It is one of 10 churches in Afton.
Afton, NY, 13730Service times
- Sunday 10:45am
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,495 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New York — 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
It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 32.3%
- Obesity: 36.4%
- Unemployment: 7.6% (3.0–12.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Afton Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hope Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Agnes Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Afton United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Anns Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Anns Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Higher Ground Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mercy Fellowship — 1.1 mi away
- North Afton Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Saint John's Catholic Church — 4.8 mi away in Bainbridge, NY
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- First Baptist Church — 8.9 mi away in Sidney, NY
- Windsor Bible Baptist Church — 12.2 mi away in Windsor, NY