First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 978 Old Highway 8 N in Brookeland, TX 75931. It is one of 8 churches in Brookeland.
978 Old Highway 8 N, Brookeland, TX, 75931Phone: (409) 698-2827 · Website: http://www.abc-usa.org
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.
Find First Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 6.0 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 about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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): 18.6% (11.9–25.3%)
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Obesity: 37.0%
- Depression: 24.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
- Poverty Rate: 16.7% (10.4–23.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Brookeland United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Brookeland Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Spring Hill Church — 2.1 mi away in Browndell, TX
- Lone Star Church — 3.5 mi away in Pineland, TX
- Mill Creek Church — 4.6 mi away
- Brookeland Missionary Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away
- Parkway Baptist Church, Bronson, TX — 5.6 mi away in Bronson, TX
- Rayburn Baptist Church — 6.2 mi away
- Saint Raymond Catholic Church — 6.5 mi away in Sam Rayburn, TX
- Temple Of God — 6.5 mi away in Pineland, TX
More Baptist churches nearby
- Rayburn Baptist Church — 6.2 mi away
- Bishop Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 14.8 mi away in Jasper, TX
- Peaceful Restaurant Baptist Church — 15 mi away in Jasper, TX
- Greater New Bethel Baptist Church — 15.1 mi away in Jasper, TX
- Peachtree Baptist Church — 15.3 mi away in Jasper, TX