First Baptist Church of Gresham
First Baptist Church of Gresham is a Baptist church at 224 West Powell Boulevard in Gresham, OR 97030. It is one of 54 churches in Gresham, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1882
224 West Powell Boulevard, Gresham, OR, 97030Service times
- Sunday 8:40am
- Sunday 11:15am
Phone: +1-503-665-2159 · Website: https://www.fbcgo.org/
First Baptist Church of Gresham is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 390 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Oregon — 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.
Find First Baptist Church of Gresham on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around First Baptist Church of Gresham
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Depression: 31.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.7%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (2.7–10.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Gresham city is served by 45 churches — about one congregation for every 2,469 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Gresham
- City Park Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Henry Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- East Hill Church — 0.4 mi away
- Lighthouse Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Gresham United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Gresham Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Luke the Physician Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Father's House Divine Shelter Ministries Inc — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lighthouse Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Gresham Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Greater Portland Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Portland, OR
- Burnside Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Portland, OR
- Wood Village Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away in Wood Village, OR