First Baptist Church of Brownsville
First Baptist Church of Brownsville is a Baptist church at 311 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, TN, 38012-3125 in Brownsville, TN 38012. It is one of 76 churches in Brownsville, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
According to the church history written by the late J. W, Leigh in 1949, when all was night for Negros of Brownsville, when the curse of slavery was at its height, and it seemed as though God had withdrawn His mercy, there was a little band of slaves hidden in some secluded spot near Brownsville communing with God.
311 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville, TN, 38012-3125, Brownsville, TN, 38012Phone: (731) 277-9352 · Website: http://www.fbcbrownsvilletn.org/
First Baptist Church of Brownsville is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,860 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 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 of Brownsville
In the few miles around this church, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third describe their own health as fair or poor, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 50.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.7%
- Poverty Rate: 30.1% (21.1–39.1%)
- Diabetes: 23.0%
- Child Poverty: 34.4% (16.5–52.2%)
- Depression: 27.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.0%
- Unemployment: 11.0% (4.0–18.0%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (6.8–16.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
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- First Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Revelation MB Church — 0.2 mi away
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- Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Brownsville Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Farmer Chapel CME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Farmers Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
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- Brownsville Community Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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