Greater First Baptist Church
Greater First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Springfield, OH 45506. It is one of 185 churches in Springfield, and one of 15 Baptist congregations in the city.
Springfield, OH, 45506Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · Services School
Greater 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 Greater First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 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: 53.2%
- Food Insecurity: 35.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.3%
- Diabetes: 23.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.3%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.6%
- Unemployment: 11.1% (1.9–20.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
- Depression: 25.9%
- Poverty Rate: 20.3% (9.7–30.9%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (6.8–17.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Springfield city is served by 67 churches — about one congregation for every 991 residents.
Churches near Greater First Baptist Church
- House of Prayer — 0.2 mi away
- National Church of God Militant Pillar and Ground of the Truth Organization — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Gospel Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- Restored Life Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Luke Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church Of Hope — 0.3 mi away
- Covenant United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Luke Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trydestone Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away