First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 112 Virginia Ave in Petersburg, WV 26847. It is one of 26 churches in Petersburg.
112 Virginia Ave, Petersburg, WV, 26847Phone: +13042574587 · Website: https://fbcpetersburg.churchtrac.com/
First 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 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 44.1%
- Social Isolation: 32.8%
- Depression: 29.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Food Insecurity: 16.7%
- Poverty Rate: 16.1% (11.1–21.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (1.6–11.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grove Street United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- 'The Rock' Petersburg Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Presbyterian Church Petersburg — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- South Branch Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Main Street United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- South Branch Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- South Branch Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Moorefield Baptist Church — 11.9 mi away in Moorefield, WV
- Old Fields Church — 13.2 mi away
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