First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Dunlap, TN 37327. It is one of 31 churches in Dunlap, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to Serve Jesus, Make Disciples and Build Community.
We are located in the Sequatchie Valley of East Tennessee. We teach, preach and proclaim the unerring word of God.
Dunlap, TN, 37327Service times
- Sunday 8:15am · Worship
- Sunday 10am · Worship
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 — 71,418 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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Latest from First Baptist Church Dunlap's YouTube channel: September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand 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.
- Child Poverty: 49.6% (31.8–67.3%)
- Depression: 32.8%
- Poverty Rate: 32.8% (23.4–42.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.9%
- Obesity: 40.6%
- Diabetes: 16.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (8.2–18.3%)
- Unemployment: 6.4% (0.8–12.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Dunlap city is served by 5 churches — about one congregation for every 902 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Dunlap Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Dunlap Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Dunlap United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Way of the Cross Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Dunlap Seventh-day Adventist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Word of Life Assembly of God — 2 mi away
- Shepherd of the Valley Catholic Church — 2.1 mi away
- Davis Chapel — 2.2 mi away
- Bethlehem Church — 2.3 mi away
- Hall Church — 2.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Way of the Cross Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Ewtonville Church — 3.7 mi away
- Ebenezer Church — 5.8 mi away
- Cartwright First Baptist Church — 8.3 mi away in Whitwell, TN
- Whitwell First Baptist Church — 12.9 mi away in Whitwell, TN