First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Parkersburg, WV 26101. It is one of 120 churches in Parkersburg, and one of 16 Baptist congregations in the city.
Parkersburg, WV, 26101First 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 about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 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: 48.3%
- Depression: 35.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
- Food Insecurity: 26.0%
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Unemployment: 13.0% (7.1–19.2%)
- Child Poverty: 36.2% (23.6–49.8%)
- Social Isolation: 35.5%
- Poverty Rate: 28.7% (20.1–37.2%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Parkersburg city is served by 62 churches — about one congregation for every 506 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- St. Patrick's Anglican Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Temple Evangelical Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- High On Hope Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Downtown Bethel House of God — 0.2 mi away
- Logan Memorial United Methodist — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Lauchport Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Baptist Temple — 1.3 mi away
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