First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 112 in Petersburg, WV 26847. It is one of 26 churches in Petersburg.
Showing God's love, we strive to reach a hungry world with Jesus Christ through obedience to Him.
First Baptist Church is a fellowship of believers that purpose to know God through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and to equip believers through discipleship.
112, Petersburg, WV, 26847Phone: (304) 257-4587 · 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 3.9 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: 44.0%
- Social Isolation: 32.8%
- Depression: 29.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Food Insecurity: 16.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (1.5–10.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Main Street United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- 'The Rock' Petersburg Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Grove Street United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Presbyterian Church Petersburg — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- South Branch Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- South Branch Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- South Branch Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Moorefield Baptist Church — 11.7 mi away in Moorefield, WV
- Old Fields Church — 12.9 mi away
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