First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 33482 Main Street in Jonesville, VA 24263. It is one of 31 churches in Jonesville, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to ... Engage people daily with gospel conversations and Expand the gospel to the utter most parts of the earth. Equip and Empower believers with the Word of God to become faithful followers of Jesus. Encourage the discouraged, Ease the hurting, and Edify other greater than ourselves.
33482 Main Street, Jonesville, VA, 24263Phone: (276) 346-1100 · Website: https://www.fbcjonesville.net/
First 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 — 71,418 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 3.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Child Poverty: 49.0% (32.8–65.1%)
- Poverty Rate: 31.5% (21.6–41.4%)
- Unemployment: 16.1% (7.7–24.5%)
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Social Isolation: 32.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Depression: 26.6%
- Food Insecurity: 18.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bowling Church — 1.3 mi away
- McConnell Chapel — 1.6 mi away
- Miller Chapel — 2.3 mi away
- Plain View Church — 2.3 mi away
- Hurricane Chapel — 2.6 mi away
- Mount Hope Church — 2.8 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Church — 3.2 mi away
- Corinth Church — 3.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA
- Admant Baptist Church — 6.5 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA
- First Baptist Church of Pennington Gap — 6.9 mi away in Pennington Gap, VA
- First Baptist Church — 8.4 mi away
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