First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Defiance, OH 43512. It is one of 59 churches in Defiance, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Defiance, OH, 43512First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,336 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 71,352 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 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Social Isolation: 33.1%
- Depression: 24.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.4%
- Diabetes: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Defiance city is served by 31 churches — about one congregation for every 284 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Defiance Church of the Nazarene — 0.1 mi away
- Heritage Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Grove Street Church of God — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Marys Catholic Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint John Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
- First Pilgrim Holiness Church — 1.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 1.3 mi away
- The Gathering Place — 1.3 mi away
- First Mennonite Church — 1.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Heritage Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Mt Calvary Baptist Church — 6.7 mi away
- Sherwood Baptist Church — 9.8 mi away in Sherwood, OH