First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 120 Wyoming Street in Welch, WV 24801. It is one of 23 churches in Welch, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
120 Wyoming Street, Welch, WV, 24801First 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 3.3 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 more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 48.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.7%
- Poverty Rate: 32.4% (20.7–44.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 32.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.8%
- Diabetes: 20.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Depression: 29.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Child Poverty: 24.8% (5.2–44.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.0% (4.8–17.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Living Hope Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Reclamation church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Peter Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Court Street Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Anderson Memorial Presbyterian Chapel — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Living Hope Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Little Vine Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Kimball, WV
- Mount Nebo Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Kimball, WV
- First Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Kimball, WV
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