First Blue Ridge
First Blue Ridge is a Southern Baptist church at 316 TX-78 in Blue Ridge, TX 75424. It is one of 8 churches in Blue Ridge.
Our mission is to give glory to God by Loving others through sharing the gospel, Discipling believers, and equipping Christians to go and do the same.
At First Baptist, we have a simple hope: to see people come to know Jesus Christ, grow in their Christian faith, and share that with the world.
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316 TX-78, Blue Ridge, TX, 75424Phone: (972) 752-5611 · Website: https://www.firstblueridge.org/
First Blue Ridge 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.
Find First Blue Ridge on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around First Blue Ridge
It takes 3.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.2% (10.0–26.4%)
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Depression: 24.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Blue Ridge
- Christ United Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ridgeview Fellowship Church — 1.2 mi away
- Round Up Cowboy Church — 2.6 mi away in Farmersville, TX
- Snow Hill Church — 3.5 mi away in Farmersville, TX
- Verona Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Farmersville, TX
- Pike Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away
- Indian Creek Church — 5.5 mi away in Leonard, TX
- Crossroads Church — 5.7 mi away
- Westminster Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away in Anna, TX
More Baptist churches nearby
- Ridgeview Fellowship Church — 1.2 mi away
- Verona Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Farmersville, TX
- Pike Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away
- Altoga Baptist Church — 6.8 mi away in McKinney, TX