First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 479 Guy Park Avenue in Amsterdam, NY 12010. It is one of 42 churches in Amsterdam, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.

479 Guy Park Avenue, Amsterdam, NY, 12010

First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,466 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New York — 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 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 about 1 in 5 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: 40.0%
  • Social Isolation: 33.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 19.6% (8.8–30.3%)
  • Food Insecurity: 19.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Amsterdam city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 912 residents.

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