First Mennonite Church
First Mennonite Church is a church in Defiance, OH 43512. It is one of 72 churches in Defiance.
Defiance, OH, 43512First Mennonite Church is part of the Anabaptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 109 congregations of the Anabaptist family gather across Ohio — 1,105 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Anabaptists paid with their lives for believers' baptism and freedom of conscience centuries before either was safe to hold, and every church in America now enjoys what they died for. Their disaster-relief crews, arriving quietly after every flood and fire, and their refusal to return violence remain a standing witness to the rest of us.
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The community around First Mennonite Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 34.6%
- Obesity: 37.4%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.5%
- Poverty Rate: 21.1% (12.1–30.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.9%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), 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 Mennonite Church
- Bethel Worship Center of Defiance — 0.2 mi away
- Missionary Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Defiance Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Nccdefiance — 0.5 mi away
- Believers Church International — 0.5 mi away
- First Pilgrim Holiness Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of God — 0.9 mi away
More Anabaptist churches nearby
- Pine Grove Mennonite Church — 14.7 mi away in Stryker, OH
- Zion Mennonite Church — 16.3 mi away in Archbold, OH
- West Clinton Mennonite Church — 18 mi away in Wauseon, OH
- Central Mennonite Church — 18.9 mi away in Archbold, OH
- Lockport Mennonite Church — 18.9 mi away in West Unity, OH