First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Martins Ferry, OH 43935. It is one of 16 churches in Martins Ferry.
Martins Ferry, OH, 43935First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,344 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 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 about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About 1 in 5 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 53.3% (35.1–71.6%)
- Unemployment: 20.8% (6.6–35.1%)
- Obesity: 44.2%
- Social Isolation: 34.6%
- Depression: 28.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Poverty Rate: 26.7% (15.3–38.2%)
- Diabetes: 17.2%
- Food Insecurity: 19.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Martins Ferry city is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 308 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Apostolic Faith Temple — 0 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Assembly of God — 0.2 mi away
- St. Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Mary's Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. John's Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church Of The Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Zoodochos Peghe Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Wheeling, WV
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Bridgeport, OH
- Agape Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Wheeling, WV
- St Paul Lutheran Church — 2.6 mi away in Bridgeport, OH
- First Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Wheeling, WV
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