First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1600 Boca Chica Blvd in Brownsville, TX 78520-8139. It is one of 121 churches in Brownsville, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
First Baptist Church exists to exalt the Savior in worship, equip the saints through Biblical discipleship, extend Christ’s salvation by witnessing and church planting, and express the love of Jesus to all people by our service and compassion.
1600 Boca Chica Blvd, Brownsville, TX, 78520-8139Service times
- Sunday 9:15am · Bible Studies
Phone: +19565425334 · Website: https://www.fbcbrownsville.com/
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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 55.6% (36.9–74.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 28.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.6% (12.8–30.4%)
- Diabetes: 18.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
- Obesity: 37.7%
- Poverty Rate: 17.0% (6.8–27.2%)
- Unemployment: 6.3% (2.6–10.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Feed My Lambs Church — 0.5 mi away
- Vineyard Christian Fellowship — 0.7 mi away
- Mary, Mother of the Church — 0.8 mi away
- Casa de Adoración Roca Fuerte — 0.8 mi away
- Centro Cristiano El Mesias Brownsville,Texas — 0.8 mi away
- Iglesia El Mensaje/The Message Church — 0.8 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Logos Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- First Mexican Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Saint James Missionary Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Brownsville Missionary Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away