First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Colby, KS 67701. It is one of 13 churches in Colby, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Welcome. Worship. Work. Wonder.
We are a loving, theologically diverse faith community in the American Baptist tradition helping each other follow Jesus through the core values of welcome, worship, work, and wonder.
Colby, KS, 67701First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 661 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kansas — 71,352 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
- Food Pantries
- Music Ministries
- Chancel Choir
- FBC Worship Band
- Handbell Choir
- Family Promise
- L.I.N.K.
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Latest from Lawrence First Baptist's YouTube channel: November 01, 2026 FBC Worship Service, 11:00 am (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 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 10 the people here live without health insurance. 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.
- Social Isolation: 30.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (5.3–17.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 1 census tracts near this church.
Colby city is served by 5 churches — about one congregation for every 1,151 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Landmark United Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Colby United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Freedom Church - Colby — 0.5 mi away
- Colby United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Berean Church — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- Colby Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- College Drive Assembly of God — 1 mi away
- Mingo Bible Church — 9.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Berean Church — 0.7 mi away
- Brewster Community Church — 17.3 mi away in Brewster, KS
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 21.5 mi away in Oakley, KS