First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Wheeling, WV 26003. It is one of 107 churches in Wheeling, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
At First Baptist Church Wheeling, we are a church family committed to loving God, loving people, and making disciples. We believe God’s Word is true, sufficient, and central to all of life, so our worship is shaped by Scripture, prayer, gospel-centered preaching, and joyful congregational singing.
Wheeling, WV, 26003Service times
- Sunday 10am
- Sunday 9am · School
First 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 — 71,417 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Student Ministry
- Children's Ministry
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Latest from First Baptist Church Wheeling's YouTube channel: The Path of Trusting God | Psalm 119:73-80 | Dr. Darrin Wright (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 32.6%
- Depression: 27.9%
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Obesity: 37.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
- Unemployment: 7.0% (2.0–12.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Wheeling city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 339 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Calvary Chapel — 0.5 mi away
- Christ United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Michael Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Michaels Convent — 0.6 mi away
- Ruble United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Edgewood Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Edgewood Park Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lava Avenue Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Agape Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Redeeming Grace Reformed Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
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