First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Wellsville, OH 43968. It is one of 15 churches in Wellsville.

Wellsville, OH, 43968

Website: http://www.firstbaptistwellsville.org/

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 about a mile of this church, more than 6 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 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: 60.2% (41.0–79.4%)
  • Obesity: 46.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 31.1% (19.5–42.7%)
  • Diabetes: 18.2%
  • Social Isolation: 34.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.9%
  • Depression: 28.3%
  • Food Insecurity: 24.0%
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Wellsville village is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 341 residents.

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