First Baptist Church of Sweetwater
First Baptist Church of Sweetwater is a Baptist church in Sweetwater, TN 37874. It is one of 45 churches in Sweetwater, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to be a missionary as described in Acts 1:8 NIV: And you will be my witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Missions has always been a large part of First Baptist Church Sweetwater as we strive to always be Spreading the Light of Jesus by loving one another and glorifying God.
Sweetwater, TN, 37874Service times
- Wednesday 6:30pm · PRAYER SERVICE
Website: https://www.sweetwaterfbc.org/
First Baptist Church of Sweetwater 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church of Sweetwater
- Needy Family Fund
- Operation Inasmuch
- Thanksgiving Meal
- Mission Serve Mission Trip
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The community around First Baptist Church of Sweetwater
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Depression: 31.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Poverty Rate: 18.0% (10.9–25.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (6.3–16.2%)
- Unemployment: 6.8% (2.6–10.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Sweetwater
- Sweetwater Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Victory Praise Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Sweetwater Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- The Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Chapel Sweetwater — 0.4 mi away
- Burls Chapel Freewill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Burls Chapel Freewill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- North Sweetwater Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Place for the Gospel Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Fairview Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
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