First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Springfield, TN 37172. It is one of 82 churches in Springfield, and one of 15 Baptist congregations in the city.
Springfield, TN, 37172Service times
Friday, July 31, 2026, 9:00 am; Saturday, August 1, 2026, 6:00 pm; Monday- Friday 9am (as listed)
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,871 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 71,417 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. Nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 28.4% (18.2–38.5%)
- Obesity: 43.9%
- Depression: 27.9%
- Poverty Rate: 22.8% (13.4–32.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.0%
- Diabetes: 16.9%
- Child Poverty: 27.4% (10.1–44.8%)
- Unemployment: 7.9% (2.4–13.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Springfield city is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 1,256 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- St John United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Community Baptist — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Hispana Bautista Rios de Agua Viva — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Whites Chapel CME — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Covenant Confirmers — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Covenant Church — 0.3 mi away
- 19th Avenue Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Purpose Life Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater South Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Springfield Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- North Springfield Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Epiphany Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
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