Ripley First Baptist Church
Ripley First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Ripley, TN 38063. It is one of 50 churches in Ripley, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Ripley, TN, 38063Ripley 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 Ripley 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. 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: 51.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.0%
- Diabetes: 20.4%
- Child Poverty: 39.3% (21.5–57.2%)
- Poverty Rate: 28.2% (19.7–36.8%)
- Depression: 27.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (7.0–16.1%)
- Unemployment: 7.6% (2.9–12.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Ripley city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 1,023 residents.
Churches near Ripley First Baptist Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Emanuel Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Miles Chapel CME Church — 0.4 mi away
- Holly Grove Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Gospel Rock Holiness Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Assembly of God — 0.6 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Spiller Hill Church of God in Christ — 0.8 mi away
- New Beginnings Christian Center Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Holly Grove Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Marys Chapel — 3 mi away
- Elam Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Henning, TN