First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Newburgh, NY 12550. It is one of 78 churches in Newburgh, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Newburgh, NY, 12550First 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
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand 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.
- Food Insecurity: 26.9%
- Social Isolation: 34.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.1%
- Obesity: 36.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Child Poverty: 24.2% (8.0–40.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.0%
- Poverty Rate: 18.7% (9.7–27.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (7.2–19.8%)
- Diabetes: 13.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Newburgh city is served by 31 churches — about one congregation for every 927 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Christ Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Fuente de Vida — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Full Gospel Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Bible Fellowship Church — 0.5 mi away
- Amazing Grace Apostolic Faith Church — 0.6 mi away
- Charity Cathedral International — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Oak Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Baptist Temple — 0.9 mi away
- Moulton Memorial Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Newburgh A.M.E. Zion Church — 1.1 mi away