First Church
First Church is a Baptist church in AL 36767.
We practice traditional spiritual disciplines of worship, prayer, service, and Bible study, which, along with our downtown context, influence our striving to be an Open Place for ALL to Worship, Grow, and Serve.
Accessible parking
AL, 36767Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · mornings we offer a nursery
- Sunday 9:45am · School
Phone: (334) 877-4400 · Website: https://www.fbcselma.org
First Church 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.
Ministries at First Church
- Children's Ministry
- Student Ministry
- Justice and Mercy
- Congregational Care
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The community around First Church
It takes 8.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 50.7%
- Food Insecurity: 43.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.5%
- Diabetes: 27.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Poverty Rate: 26.9% (13.1–40.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 21.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
- Unemployment: 7.6% (1.4–13.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Church
- Siloam Church — 0.4 mi away
- Orrville United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away in Orrville, AL
- Orrville Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Orrville, AL
- Church of the Immaculate Conception — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Marys Church — 1.9 mi away
- The True Way Church — 2.1 mi away
- Rising Star Church — 2.3 mi away
- John the Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Orrville Amish Mennonite Church — 3.7 mi away
- Antioch Church — 4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Orrville Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Orrville, AL
- John the Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Antioch Church — 4 mi away
- Salem Primitive Baptist Church — 4 mi away
- Azion Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away