First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Sandusky, OH 44870. It is one of 80 churches in Sandusky, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Sandusky, OH, 44870Shares a ministry location with 242 Church and The Sanctuary.
First 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 47.9%
- Food Insecurity: 28.2%
- Unemployment: 13.3% (3.9–22.8%)
- Child Poverty: 39.9% (24.6–55.2%)
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Depression: 28.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.1%
- Poverty Rate: 26.3% (13.7–38.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.8%
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Sandusky city is served by 30 churches — about one congregation for every 804 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- The Sanctuary — 0 mi away
- 242 Church — 0 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Salem United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Catholic Parishes of Sandusky — 0.1 mi away
- First Faith Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Second Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Baptist Temple — 0.6 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away