Puryear First Baptist Church
Puryear First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Puryear, TN 38251. It is one of 12 churches in Puryear.
Puryear, TN, 38251Puryear First 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 Puryear First Baptist Church
It takes 4.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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: 29.4%
- Unemployment: 9.7% (2.6–16.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.5%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Puryear city is served by 1 churches — about one congregation for every 3,350 residents.
Churches near Puryear First Baptist Church
- United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Puryear Christian Life Church — 0.2 mi away
- Union Grove Church — 0.8 mi away
- Lebanon Church — 2.3 mi away
- Old Foundry Hill Church — 2.8 mi away
- Community of Christ — 3.2 mi away
- Chestnut Grove Church — 3.6 mi away
- Hazel Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away in Hazel, KY
- Oak Grove Church — 4.9 mi away
- Mason Chapel — 5 mi away in Hazel, KY
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away in Paris, TN
- Buchanan Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away
- Cedar Hill Church — 9.3 mi away in Cottage Grove, TN
- Cottage Grove Baptist Church — 9.5 mi away in Cottage Grove, TN
- Paris First Baptist Church — 9.8 mi away in Paris, TN