First Baptist Church of Kent
First Baptist Church of Kent is a Baptist church at 11420 Southeast 248th Street in Kent, WA 98030. It is one of 119 churches in Kent, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
11420 Southeast 248th Street, Kent, WA, 98030First Baptist Church of Kent is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 626 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Washington — 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 of Kent
Within a few blocks of these doors, nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. About 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about a third of the people here were born in another country. That is two thousand 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.
- Depression: 23.6%
- Unemployment: 7.8% (1.1–14.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Kent city is served by 61 churches — about one congregation for every 2,175 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Kent
- Kent United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kent Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church of Kent — 0.4 mi away
- Lutheran Church of the Cross — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia Centro Cristiano — 0.6 mi away
- Christ Centered Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- Centro Cristiano Seattle — 0.6 mi away
- Reach The Nation — 0.6 mi away
- Kent Covenant Church — 0.6 mi away
- Hoi Thanh Tin-Lanh Kent Vietnamese Bible Fellowship Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Christian Church of Kent — 0.4 mi away
- Eastridge Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Eastridge Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- East Hill Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Sequoia Church — 0.9 mi away