First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Richlands, VA 24641. It is one of 23 churches in Richlands, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.

Richlands, VA, 24641

Shares a ministry location with Cornerstone 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

In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 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.

  • Obesity: 42.9%
  • Social Isolation: 35.4%
  • Child Poverty: 35.3% (16.3–54.2%)
  • Depression: 29.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 26.8% (18.1–35.4%)
  • Diabetes: 17.5%
  • Food Insecurity: 20.0%
  • Unemployment: 8.0% (1.9–14.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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