First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Selmer, TN 38375. It is one of 32 churches in Selmer, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Selmer, TN, 38375Website: http://firstbaptistselmer.org/
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 First Baptist Church
It takes 2.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 40.9%
- Depression: 30.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Poverty Rate: 19.7% (11.8–27.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Fourth Street Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cypress Creek FBC — 0.6 mi away
- Selmer Church — 0.8 mi away
- Lakeview Church — 0.8 mi away
- Selmer Second Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Prospect Church — 1.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Mt. Zion Baptist Church Selmer TN. — 1.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lakeview Church — 0.8 mi away
- Selmer Second Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mt. Zion Baptist Church Selmer TN. — 1.4 mi away
- Cypress Creek First Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- North Campus of First Baptist Selmer — 2.7 mi away