First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church in Damascus, VA 24236. It is one of 15 churches in Damascus.
Damascus, VA, 24236First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,727 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 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
It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Social Isolation: 34.2%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Obesity: 40.0%
- Depression: 25.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.2%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Damascus Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Damascus Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Soul's Harbor — 0.6 mi away
- One Way Ministries — 0.7 mi away
- Wright Chapel — 1 mi away
- Laurel Community Church — 2.3 mi away
- Luther Chapel — 3.6 mi away in Meadowview, VA
- Beulah Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Meadowview, VA
- Zion Church — 3.9 mi away
- Zion United Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Beulah Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Meadowview, VA
- Friendship Baptist Church — 7 mi away in Glade Spring, VA
- Greenfield Baptist Church — 7.4 mi away in Meadowview, VA
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 8.9 mi away in Meadowview, VA
- Calvary Baptist Church — 9.3 mi away in Mountain City, TN