First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Radford, VA 24141. It is one of 63 churches in Radford, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
Radford, VA, 24141Service times
- Thursday 8:30am
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 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 43.7%
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Depression: 30.7%
- Food Insecurity: 22.8%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (3.2–14.4%)
- Obesity: 36.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Radford city is served by 25 churches — about one congregation for every 655 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Pilgrim Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Radford Wesleyan Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Unity Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Baptist Student Center — 0.6 mi away
- Rockford Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Life Harvest — 0.8 mi away
- Fairlawn United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Baptist Student Center — 0.6 mi away
- Fairlawn Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Baptist Tabernacle — 1.6 mi away