First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 112 Mahan Street in Suffolk, VA 23434. It is one of 211 churches in Suffolk, and one of 32 Baptist congregations in the city.
To glorify Christ by making disciples, who make disciples, in our community and around the world.
112 Mahan Street, Suffolk, VA, 23434Service times
- Sunday 10:30am · Worship
- Sunday 9am · School Groups
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9am · - ay
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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Discipleship
- Missions
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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: 50.2%
- Food Insecurity: 32.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.2%
- Diabetes: 19.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.1%
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.7%
- Poverty Rate: 24.1% (13.1–35.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.2%
- Unemployment: 10.3% (2.9–17.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
- Child Poverty: 22.8% (8.8–36.7%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.7% (7.3–20.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Suffolk city is served by 138 churches — about one congregation for every 687 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Pauls Protestant Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Suffolk Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Main Street United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Macedonia African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Higher Ground Outreach Church — 0.4 mi away
- Acts Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Of Deliverance Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Open Hands Christian Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- West End Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Suffolk Bible Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- East End Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away