First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Jackson, TN 38301. It is one of 213 churches in Jackson, and one of 25 Baptist congregations in the city.
Jackson, TN, 38301Service times
- Sunday 9am
First Baptist Church 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Life Groups
- Room in the Inn
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 81.1%
- Obesity: 54.0%
- Poverty Rate: 44.0% (30.4–57.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.5%
- Diabetes: 22.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.1% (10.9–29.2%)
- Unemployment: 14.0% (3.8–24.1%)
- Depression: 27.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Jackson city is served by 64 churches — about one congregation for every 1,000 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Luke's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- City Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Growth Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Berean Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Vision Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mt Zion Downtown — 0.3 mi away
- Central Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Liberty Street Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- City Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Berean Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Vision Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mt Zion Downtown — 0.3 mi away
- Historic First Baptist — 0.4 mi away