Where is First Baptist Church located?

First Baptist Church is at 109 Hillcrest Drive, Independence, VA, 24348.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Independence, VA is a Baptist church. It is one of 3 Baptist congregations in Independence.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 109 Hillcrest Drive in Independence, VA 24348. It is one of 23 churches in Independence, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.

We are disciples of Jesus Christ who live to make other disciples of Jesus Christ.

109 Hillcrest Drive, Independence, VA, 24348

Phone: +1-276-773-2446 · Website: https://fbcindependence.net/

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.

Ministries at First Baptist Church

Community Outreach
Youth Outreach
Missions

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The community around First Baptist Church

It takes 4.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

Obesity: 42.6%
Social Isolation: 34.7%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.5%
Food Insecurity: 20.6%
Diabetes: 17.0%
Depression: 23.9%
Poverty Rate: 16.6% (11.0–22.2%)
Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near First Baptist Church

Living By Faith Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
Mount Zion Church — 1 mi away
Chestnut Hill Church — 2.1 mi away
Rock Creek Church — 2.2 mi away
Brush Creek Church — 2.3 mi away
Flat Rock Church — 2.3 mi away
Pleasant Grove Church — 2.8 mi away
Mountain View Church — 3.4 mi away
Bethany Church — 3.8 mi away

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White Plains Union Baptist Church — 6.4 mi away in Sparta, NC

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