First Southern Babtists Church

First Southern Babtists Church is a Southern Baptist church in Altoona, PA 16601. It is one of 89 churches in Altoona.

Altoona, PA, 16601

Website: http://a1sbc.org/

First Southern Babtists Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,509 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 Southern Babtists Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 37.7%
  • Depression: 26.7%
  • Child Poverty: 26.7% (12.4–41.0%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 19.5% (13.1–25.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Altoona city is served by 24 churches — about one congregation for every 1,833 residents.

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