First Thessalonians Baptist Church
First Thessalonians Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Memphis, TN 38106. It is one of 1,547 churches in Memphis, and one of 382 Baptist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38106First Thessalonians 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 Thessalonians Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 51.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.9%
- Poverty Rate: 31.7% (20.3–43.0%)
- Diabetes: 29.4%
- Unemployment: 16.6% (5.9–27.2%)
- Depression: 23.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (7.2–20.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near First Thessalonians Baptist Church
- THE WAY CHURCH — 0.3 mi away
- New Life Change Church — 0.3 mi away
- Longview Community Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Longview United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Lake Grove Baptist Church Number Two — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Tabernacle International Holiness Church — 0.5 mi away
- Majorie Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Alice Avenue Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Longview Church — 0.5 mi away
- Gilgal Temple Church Of God In Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lake Grove Baptist Church Number Two — 0.4 mi away
- Majorie Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Koinona Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Faith Temple Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Sinai Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away