First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Bishop, TX 78343. It is one of 9 churches in Bishop, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Bishop, TX, 78343Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School
- Tuesday 9am
Shares a ministry location with St John's Lutheran Church.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,496 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. Nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 29.0%
- Diabetes: 18.8%
- Obesity: 42.1%
- Unemployment: 9.0% (2.7–15.2%)
- Child Poverty: 28.0% (10.1–45.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 19.4% (12.1–26.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Bishop city is served by 5 churches — about one congregation for every 694 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- St John's Lutheran Church — 0 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Turcotte Piper Chapel Church — 0.1 mi away
- St James Catholic — 0.3 mi away
- St Paul Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint James Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Templo Gethsemani Pentecostes — 0.9 mi away
- Praise Victory Church — 4.7 mi away in Kingsville, TX
- St Joseph Catholic Church — 5.1 mi away in Kingsville, TX
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- University Baptist Church — 6.2 mi away in Kingsville, TX
- First Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away in Kingsville, TX
- Retama Park Baptist Church — 7.6 mi away in Kingsville, TX
- Agua Dulce Baptist Church — 15.5 mi away in Agua Dulce, TX