First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Elkins, WV 26241. It is one of 36 churches in Elkins.
First Baptist Church is a congregation which has been blessed to be a part of this community for well over 100 years.
Elkins, WV, 26241First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 771 congregations of the Baptist family gather across West 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.
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults here carry depression, and more than 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 45.0%
- Depression: 33.4%
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.3%
- Unemployment: 9.3% (3.6–14.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.5%
- Poverty Rate: 16.2% (11.0–21.4%)
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Elkins city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 259 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Saint Brendan Catholic Church — 0 mi away
- Davis Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Refinery Church — 0.2 mi away
- John Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Woodford Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Centerbranch Church Elkins — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- John Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Landmark Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Tygarts Valley Baptist Church — 6.2 mi away in Beverly, WV
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 7.6 mi away in Belington, WV
- First Baptist Church of Belington — 8.2 mi away in Belington, WV
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