First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church in Martin, TN 38237. It is one of 48 churches in Martin.
First Baptist Church of Martin is committed to helping every generation believe, connect, grow, and go.
First Baptist Martin is made up of ordinary, every day people... people just like you! We all face challenges and problems, experience happy and sad times, celebrate victories, and grieve our defeats. But our confidence and our hope is in Jesus Christ. He gives us grace when we least deserve it, and He fills our hearts with abundant joy. It is not joy based on our circumstances or situations, but on our relationship in Him.
Martin, TN, 38237Service times
- Wednesday 6pm–7:30pm
- Sunday 9:30am · mornings
- Sunday 8:15am · mornings
First 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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Latest from First Baptist Church Martin's YouTube channel: September 13, 2026 | 11 a.m. Worship Service | "We Preach Christ & The Gospel" (all videos).
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 the people here live 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.
- Poverty Rate: 47.6%
- Depression: 35.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
- Obesity: 39.5%
- Child Poverty: 26.1% (12.7–39.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9% (10.9–18.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Martin city is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 1,100 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Martin Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Refreshing Church Martin — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Miles Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Mission Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Progressive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Progressive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Eastside Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away