First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Obion, TN 38240. It is one of 17 churches in Obion, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Obion, TN, 38240First 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 Baptist Church
It takes 3.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Depression: 31.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Obesity: 38.8%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Obion First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Troy Road Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Glass Church of Christ — 3.5 mi away
- Mount Moriah Church — 3.6 mi away
- Trimble First Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Trimble, TN
- Main Street Church of Christ — 5.2 mi away in Troy, TN
- Greater Vision Church — 5.4 mi away in Troy, TN
- Church of Christ — 5.5 mi away
- Blessed Hope Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away in Troy, TN
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trimble First Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Trimble, TN
- Troy First Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away in Troy, TN
- Antioch Baptist Church — 9 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 9.5 mi away in Troy, TN