What time are services at First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church meets Sunday at 9:45am (School starting); Sunday at 6pm (Night Prayer); Wednesday at 7pm (Nights). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Fort Sumner, NM is a Baptist church.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Fort Sumner, NM 88119. It is one of 14 churches in Fort Sumner.

First Baptist Church Fort Sumner- Serving others and sharing Jesus: Reaching De Baca County and touching the World with the Gospel message of Jesus, the only way to salvation.

Fort Sumner, NM, 88119

Service times

Sunday 9:45am · School starting
Sunday 6pm · Night Prayer
Wednesday 7pm · Nights

First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 371 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Mexico — 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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The community around First Baptist Church

It takes 20.0 miles in every direction to gather 1,100 neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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: 32.9%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
Diabetes: 16.1%
Unemployment: 9.6% (2.7–16.5%)
Child Poverty: 26.1% (6.7–45.5%)
Depression: 23.0%
Poverty Rate: 21.6% (11.5–31.7%)
Food Insecurity: 19.8%
Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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