First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Kimball, WV 24853. It is one of 8 churches in Kimball, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Kimball, WV, 24853First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 774 congregations of the Baptist family gather across West Virginia — 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
It takes 2.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 47.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.2%
- Poverty Rate: 30.7% (19.2–42.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 30.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.1%
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Social Isolation: 37.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
- Depression: 27.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.6%
- Child Poverty: 22.0% (2.1–41.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (5.4–19.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 1 census tracts near this church.
Kimball town is served by 4 churches — about one congregation for every 1,289 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Houston Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Miracle Mount Carmel Holiness Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Nebo Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Elkhorn Church — 0.9 mi away
- Kimball Church — 1.1 mi away in Northfork, WV
- Community Church — 1.3 mi away
- Masks Chapel — 1.5 mi away in Northfork, WV
- Little Vine Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Shiloh Church — 2.5 mi away in Welch, WV
- Grace Episcopal Church — 2.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Nebo Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Little Vine Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Keystone Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Keystone, WV
- Mount Chapel Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Keystone, WV
- Keystone Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Keystone, WV
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