Firelight Spiritual Baptist Church
Firelight Spiritual Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Memphis, TN 38109. It is one of 1,547 churches in Memphis, and one of 382 Baptist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38109Firelight Spiritual 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.
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The community around Firelight Spiritual 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. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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: 95.4%
- Obesity: 53.4%
- Poverty Rate: 46.3% (30.3–62.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 45.0%
- Diabetes: 30.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 25.0% (14.3–35.7%)
- Unemployment: 19.4% (5.0–33.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.8%
- Depression: 24.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Firelight Spiritual Baptist Church
- Warren United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Golden Gate Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Open Door Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- South Parkway Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Martin Memorial Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Chance Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bloomfield Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mt. Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Person Avenue Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Golden Gate Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Open Door Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bloomfield Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Person Avenue Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Shady Grove Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away