First Free Will Baptist Church
First Free Will Baptist Church is a Free Will Baptist church at 1028 Lafayette Ave in Springfield, OH 45505-3239. It is one of 185 churches in Springfield, and one of 3 Free Will Baptist congregations in the city.
1028 Lafayette Ave, Springfield, OH, 45505-3239Service times
- Sunday 5pm · Evening Service
Phone: +19373258429 · Website: http://www.1stfwb.org/
First Free Will 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 Free Will Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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: 50.7%
- Obesity: 49.6%
- Poverty Rate: 34.7% (25.3–44.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.9%
- Food Insecurity: 32.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.9%
- Diabetes: 18.4%
- Unemployment: 12.6% (5.8–19.4%)
- Social Isolation: 38.9%
- Depression: 29.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Free Will Baptist Church
- Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mission Église de Dieu de la Vérité — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Church of the Open Bible — 0.5 mi away
- Maranatha Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Beacon Street Church of Christ in Christian Union — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity AME Church — 0.6 mi away
- Springfield Freewill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of God — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Maranatha Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Springfield Freewill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Lebanon Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mt Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away