First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Memphis, TN 38109. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis, and one of 427 Baptist congregations in the city.

First Memphis is a Midtown congregation that seeks to share Christ’s love through hospitality, community, dialogue, and service.

Part of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

Memphis, TN, 38109

Service times

  • Sunday 11am
  • Sunday 9:30am · School Worship
  • Sunday 11am · School Worship
  • Sunday 9:15am · School

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 — 71,418 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 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 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 53.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 43.3% (27.1–59.5%)
  • Diabetes: 30.9%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.5% (13.7–31.3%)
  • Unemployment: 19.2% (6.2–32.2%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.4%
  • Depression: 24.2%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.

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