First Southern Baptist Church
First Southern Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Ripley, OH 45167. It is one of 11 churches in Ripley, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Ripley, OH, 45167First Southern Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,342 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 71,418 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 Southern Baptist Church
It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 34.7%
- Child Poverty: 31.5% (20.3–42.9%)
- Diabetes: 16.0%
- Depression: 26.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Poverty Rate: 19.1% (13.2–25.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%
- Unemployment: 7.0% (3.0–10.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Southern Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Beebe Chapel C.M.E. Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Michael the Archangel Church — 0.5 mi away
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Ripley First Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Ripley Church of the Nazarene — 0.7 mi away
- Ripley Assembly of God — 0.9 mi away
- Dover Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away in Dover, KY
- Pisgah Chapel — 3.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bracken Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away in Dover, KY
- Felix Chapel Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Augusta, KY
- Riverview Baptist Church — 6 mi away in Aberdeen, OH
- Aberdeen Baptist Church — 7.4 mi away in Aberdeen, OH