First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Marlinton, WV 24954. It is one of 29 churches in Marlinton.
Marlinton, WV, 24954First 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 8.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.2%
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Obesity: 40.4%
- Social Isolation: 33.3%
- Depression: 29.6%
- Unemployment: 11.2% (1.4–21.1%)
- Child Poverty: 27.2% (9.0–45.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.2% (12.7–29.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Huntersville Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Huntersville United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Huntersville, West Virginia — 1.6 mi away in Huntersville, WV
- Browns Creek Church — 2.3 mi away
- Cummings Creek Church — 3.7 mi away
- Saint John Neumann Catholic Church — 3.9 mi away
- Marlinton United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 4.2 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
- Marlinton Presbyterian Church — 4.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Grace Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
- Mount Pisgah Baptist Church — 14.9 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 16 mi away in Hot Springs, VA
- Piney Grove Baptist Church — 16.1 mi away in Hot Springs, VA
- Healing Springs Baptist Church — 18.3 mi away in Hot Springs, VA
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