First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 318 Hall St in Franklin, VA 23851-1929. It is one of 63 churches in Franklin.
318 Hall St, Franklin, VA, 23851-1929Phone: +17575627158 · Website: https://fbcfranklin.com/
Shares a ministry location with Cool Spring Church.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,736 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third 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: 49.6%
- Food Insecurity: 35.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.5%
- Diabetes: 23.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.9%
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Child Poverty: 31.6% (15.0–48.2%)
- Poverty Rate: 23.4% (14.5–32.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Cool Spring Church — 0 mi away
- Diamond Grove Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- United Christian Community Church, Franklin, Va — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- High Street Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Lukes African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Eternal Life Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rapture Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Franklin Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Apostolic Faith Church of God — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Diamond Grove Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Franklin Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Piney Grove Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Hunterdale Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- White Oak Spring Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away