Where is First Baptist Church located?

First Baptist Church is at 11 S State St, Shelburn, IN, 47879.

What time are services at First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church meets Sunday at 6pm (evenings). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Shelburn, IN is a Baptist church. It is one of 3 Baptist congregations in Shelburn.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 11 S State St in Shelburn, IN 47879. It is one of 9 churches in Shelburn, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.

We believe that as God's people, and out of loving gratitude for what He has done for us, we are called to demonstrate God's Kingdom, and point people toward God's future transformation of creation by bringing the Good News of Jesus to others through our loving deeds and our words.

We believe in and worship the triune God of the Bible, who is eternally one God, yet mysteriously exists in community as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

11 S State St, Shelburn, IN, 47879

Service times

Sunday 6pm · evenings

Phone: (812) 397-5595 · Website: https://fbcshelburn.com/

First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,291 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Indiana — 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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Watch

Latest from First Baptist Church of Shelburn's YouTube channel: July 26, 2026 Sunday Evening Message titled, "True Joy in the Midst of Difficult Circumstances." (all videos).

The community around First Baptist Church

It takes 2.9 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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: 43.6%
Social Isolation: 32.1%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.6%
Depression: 26.9%
Food Insecurity: 17.6%
Diabetes: 14.8%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near First Baptist Church

Shelburn Wesleyan Church — 0 mi away
Shelburn United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
First Baptist Church of Shelburn — 0.7 mi away
Shelburn Church of God — 0.7 mi away
Soul's Harbor Church — 0.9 mi away
Ebenezer Church — 2.4 mi away in Farmersburg, IN
Oak Grove Church — 2.6 mi away
Palmers Prairie Church — 2.9 mi away in Sullivan, IN
Benson Church — 3.3 mi away in Sullivan, IN
Liberty Church — 3.4 mi away in Farmersburg, IN

More Baptist churches nearby

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