First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Bennington, VT 05201. It is one of 21 churches in Bennington, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Bennington, VT, 05201First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 101 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Vermont — 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.
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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. About a third of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 7 the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Depression: 31.4%
- Poverty Rate: 16.2% (9.8–22.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Unitarian Universalists — 0.2 mi away
- Second Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Peters Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Green Mountain Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Mission City Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Grace Bennington — 0.3 mi away
- Christian and Missionary Alliance Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Sacred Heart, St. Francis de Sales — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bible Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Capstone Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away in North Bennington, VT
- First Baptist Church of Hoosick — 6.9 mi away in Hoosick Falls, NY
- First Baptist Church of Hoosick Falls — 8.2 mi away in Hoosick Falls, NY
- West Hoosick Baptist Church — 11.3 mi away in Hoosick Falls, NY
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