First Baptist Church of Selma
First Baptist Church of Selma is a Baptist church in Selma, AL 36703. It is one of 155 churches in Selma, and one of 23 Baptist congregations in the city.
Selma, AL, 36703Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School
- Wednesday 5:45pm · Night
Phone: (334) 877-4400 · Website: https://www.fbcselma.org/
First Baptist Church of Selma is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,553 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 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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Latest from First Baptist Church (Selma, Alabama)'s YouTube channel: July 19, 2026 Worship Service (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church of Selma
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 51.2%
- Food Insecurity: 45.1%
- Social Isolation: 40.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.9%
- Poverty Rate: 33.9% (21.1–46.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 31.4%
- Diabetes: 25.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.3%
- Unemployment: 12.9% (3.6–22.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.1% (10.9–18.0%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (4.6–20.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Selma city is served by 37 churches — about one congregation for every 367 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Selma
- Clinton African Methodist Episcopal Zion Chapel — 0.1 mi away
- Brown Chapel AME Church;Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Green Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ellwood Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Selma Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Selma Avenue Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Assumption Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Green Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Little Caanan Primitive Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away