First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 337 5th St in Abilene, TX 79607-1201. It is one of 211 churches in Abilene, and one of 53 Baptist congregations in the city.
FBC Abilene diligently strives to be a missional church, a church who recognizes we don’t exist for ourselves but to advance the kingdom of God in the world.
First Baptist Church, Abilene was founded as a Baptist church and has held true to those distinctives which make it a Baptist Church.
Serving since 1881
337 5th St, Abilene, TX, 79607-1201Service times
- Wednesday 5pm
Phone: (325) 537-2306 · Website: https://fbcabilene.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,418 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
- Missions
- Children's Ministry
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 adults here carry depression. About 1 in 7 working-age adults live without health insurance, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Depression: 26.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (2.1–13.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Dyess AFB Chapel — 0.4 mi away
- Mosaic Church — 1.9 mi away
- Texas Avenue Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- First Evangelical Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Caps Church — 2 mi away
- Abilene Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Church of Christ - Baker Heights — 2.3 mi away
- New Horizon Ministries — 2.3 mi away
- Abilene Korean Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Lighthouse Assembly of God Church — 2.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Texas Avenue Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Abilene Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Westside Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Tye Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Tye, TX
- Wyndrock Baptist Church — 3 mi away