First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 231 3rd Avenue in Dayton, TN 37321. It is one of 58 churches in Dayton, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Numerous times in every generation, God’s people have experienced moments of spiritual renewal!These are times when hearts are awakened and faith is rekindled! Often communities are transformed, and from time-to-time renewal has poured out statewide or even nationwide! We call these moments revival. But revival is more than a special event on the church calendar; it is a movement of God that works deep within our soul.
Serving since 1888
231 3rd Avenue, Dayton, TN, 37321Phone: (423) 775-0255 · Website: http://www.firstbaptistdayton.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,872 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 71,420 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Kids4Truth
- Student Ministries
- Prayer Meeting and Bible Study
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Latest from First Baptist Church Dayton, TN's YouTube channel: Sunday Morning Worship September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults here carry depression, and about a third 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: 42.6%
- Depression: 30.6%
- Child Poverty: 30.6% (14.3–47.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
- Poverty Rate: 17.9% (11.1–24.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (8.1–16.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Dayton city is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 300 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Pentecostal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Olive United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Rhea Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- A New Thing Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Dayton Revival Center Church — 0.2 mi away
- City Church of Dayton — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Word of Truth Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Garrison Church — 1.7 mi away
- Salem Church — 2.3 mi away
- Cranmore Cove Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away