First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Kingsport, TN 37660. It is one of 212 churches in Kingsport, and one of 45 Baptist congregations in the city.
Kingsport, TN, 37660First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,871 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 71,417 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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 more than 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 51.9% (33.1–70.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 38.1% (27.7–48.5%)
- Depression: 33.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
- Diabetes: 18.9%
- Obesity: 44.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (7.1–15.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Kingsport city is served by 50 churches — about one congregation for every 1,148 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Broad Street United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Assembly at Kingsport — 0.1 mi away
- Freedom Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Harbingers Of Truth Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- reNEWed Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Barnabas Anglican Church — 0.3 mi away
- Joy Outreach Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Freedom Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church Youth Activity Center — 1.1 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
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