First General Baptist Church
First General Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Memphis, TN 38108. It is one of 1,547 churches in Memphis, and one of 382 Baptist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38108First General 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 First General Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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: 45.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 37.2% (26.4–48.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 36.2%
- Diabetes: 19.5%
- Depression: 29.5%
- Poverty Rate: 25.6% (12.5–38.6%)
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.
Churches near First General Baptist Church
- Greater United Independent Christian Church — 0 mi away
- Memphis International Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Temple Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- Wells Station Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- True Divine Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Reformed Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Tabernaculo de Vida Cristiana — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Lord Jesus Christ — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Wells Station Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Reformed Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Reformed Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gateway Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Macon Rd Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away