First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1627 N Highland Ave in Jackson, TN 38301-3407. It is one of 213 churches in Jackson, and one of 42 Baptist congregations in the city.
Making, maturing, and multiplying disciples who are rooted in the gospel, watered with the Word, and nurtured by the church – for the bearing of much fruit, for the good of all nations, and for the glory of God.
Learn more here about First Baptist Church, including our commitment, what that looks like, and the church covenant.
1627 N Highland Ave, Jackson, TN, 38301-3407Service times
- Sunday 9am
Phone: (731) 423-9315 · Website: https://fbcjackson.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
- Life Groups
- Room in the Inn
- Awana
- Children's Choir
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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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 47.0%
- Child Poverty: 42.7% (28.3–57.1%)
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Unemployment: 12.7% (3.3–22.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
- Poverty Rate: 26.5% (17.9–35.1%)
- Depression: 26.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.6% (8.3–18.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Highland Park Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia Emanuel Evangelio Completo — 0.5 mi away
- Thrive Church — 0.6 mi away
- Aldersgate Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Christ Community Church — 0.6 mi away
- Forest Heights United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Highland Heights Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- The Promise Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Thrive Church — 0.6 mi away
- Christ Community Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Saint Lukes Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Woodland Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Oaklawn Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away