First Bptist Church of Richwood

First Bptist Church of Richwood is a Baptist church in Richwood, WV 26261. It is one of 15 churches in Richwood, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.

Richwood, WV, 26261

Shares a ministry location with First Baptist Church.

First Bptist Church of Richwood 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 Bptist Church of Richwood

It takes 5.1 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 about 1 in 5 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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: 32.4%
  • Diabetes: 20.1%
  • Unemployment: 18.5% (10.3–26.9%)
  • Obesity: 43.3%
  • Social Isolation: 34.3%
  • Depression: 31.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 29.8% (19.7–39.9%)
  • Food Insecurity: 20.9%
  • Child Poverty: 27.6% (9.2–46.0%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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