First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Mathews, VA 23109. It is one of 15 churches in Mathews, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Mathews, VA, 23109Service times
SUNDAY WORSHIP GATHERINGS9:00 AM, 10:30 AM, 12:00; Wednesday’s – Choir and Orchestra Rehearsal, 6‐7:30 pm; Sunday, July 5, 9:00 & 10:30 am (as listed)
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
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 nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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: 31.0%
- Depression: 23.3%
- Diabetes: 14.8%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Church of Francis de Sales — 0.7 mi away
- Relevant Life Church - TDW — 0.8 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Westvile Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church - Mathews — 1.3 mi away
- Mathews Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Hudgins, VA
- Redeeming Grace Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Westville Christian Church — 1.4 mi away
- Kingston Parish — 1.4 mi away
- Gwynns Island Church of the Nazarene — 2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Faith Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Westvile Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Mathews Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Hudgins, VA
- Redeeming Grace Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Wayland Church — 2.9 mi away