Greater First Baptist Church
Greater First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Memphis, TN 38108. It is one of 1,532 churches in Memphis, and one of 379 Baptist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38108Greater First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Greater First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of 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: 57.0% (40.2–73.9%)
- Obesity: 51.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.9%
- Poverty Rate: 40.5% (26.0–55.0%)
- Diabetes: 28.0%
- Unemployment: 17.1% (7.3–26.8%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.3%
- Depression: 23.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.4% (7.4–21.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Greater First Baptist Church
- Coopers Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- House of Prayer Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Upper Room Church — 0.2 mi away
- El Bethel Non-Denominational — 0.2 mi away
- El Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Travelers Rest Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Stephen Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.3 mi away