First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 600 Commerce St E in Buffalo, TX 75831. It is one of 21 churches in Buffalo, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
600 Commerce St E, Buffalo, TX, 75831Phone: (903) 322-4332 · Website: https://fbcbuffalo.org/
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 — 71,418 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Bible Study
- Children's Ministry
- Student Ministry
- Men's Ministry
- Women's Ministry
- Bethlehem Experience
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The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 5.3 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 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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): 21.8% (15.5–28.0%)
- Obesity: 40.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.4%
- Poverty Rate: 22.9% (14.4–31.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.0%
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Child Poverty: 26.5% (13.1–40.1%)
- Depression: 23.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Stewart Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Street Holland Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Buffalo Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- St. Kateri Tekakwitha Roman Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.7 mi away
- Apostolic Life — 0.9 mi away
- Church — 0.9 mi away
- Hiway Tabernacle Church of God — 1 mi away
- THE WAY — 1.2 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bethel Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Jewett — 8.6 mi away in Jewett, TX
- Flo Community Baptist Church — 9.2 mi away
- Sardis Church — 10 mi away in Jewett, TX
- Freestone Baptist Church — 12.3 mi away in Teague, TX