First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Amarillo, TX 79107. It is one of 312 churches in Amarillo, and one of 59 Baptist congregations in the city.
Amarillo, TX, 79107Service times
- Sunday 8:30am
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 — 71,420 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
- Jail & Prison Ministry
- Refugee Ministry
- Fostering Hope
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 48.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 35.6% (25.3–45.8%)
- Poverty Rate: 33.8% (17.7–49.8%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 33.3%
- Diabetes: 21.0%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (1.2–16.5%)
- Child Poverty: 28.4% (9.6–47.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Amarillo city is served by 178 churches — about one congregation for every 1,068 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Iglesia pentecostes Adonai — 0.2 mi away
- Open Door Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Love Fellowship Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Praise On Fire Missions — 0.4 mi away
- Cornerstone Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Prayer Temple COGIC — 0.4 mi away
- New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Tradewinds Assembly of God — 0.5 mi away
- Christian Lighthouse — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Mt Olive Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Karen First Baptist Church Amarillo — 0.7 mi away
- Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away