First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 321 Marshall Avenue Southwest in Roanoke, VA 24016. It is one of 316 churches in Roanoke, and one of 36 Baptist congregations in the city.
The purpose of this church is to glorify God through obedience to the great commission in leading people to faith in Christ and into an ever-growing relationship with him.
Serving since 2006 · Services in Spanish
321 Marshall Avenue Southwest, Roanoke, VA, 24016Phone: +1-540-224-3300 · Website: https://www.firstroanoke.com/
Shares a ministry location with First Kids.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 35.7%
- Child Poverty: 33.1% (14.6–51.7%)
- Obesity: 36.8%
- Depression: 24.7%
- Poverty Rate: 20.1% (11.8–28.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Roanoke city is served by 141 churches — about one congregation for every 703 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Kids — 0 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Acts 2 Ministry — 0.1 mi away
- Greene Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Church of the Brethren — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Congregational Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Roanoke Quakers — 0.3 mi away
- Second Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away