First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Covington, VA 24426. It is one of 39 churches in Covington, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1867
Covington, VA, 24426First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around 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. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 41.8%
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Child Poverty: 35.5% (18.5–52.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
- Poverty Rate: 24.8% (16.0–33.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.0%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Covington city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 286 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Good News Christian Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- Covington Wesleyan Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gospel Light Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Epworth Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fincastle Baptist Church Highlands Campus — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away