First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 117 Cora St in Center, TX 75935-3949. It is one of 47 churches in Center, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Christians are called to worship, obey, and represent Jesus to a world that desperately needs Him.
It’s all about Jesus. We believe lives are transformed when people encounter Jesus Christ, and our greatest passion is to help people do that.
117 Cora St, Center, TX, 75935-3949Phone: +19365985605 · Website: https://www.fbccenter.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.
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults 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: 54.1% (35.7–72.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.8%
- Diabetes: 18.7%
- Obesity: 44.2%
- Poverty Rate: 29.6% (18.4–40.7%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.8% (9.3–24.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Northside Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- First Methodist Church of Center — 0.2 mi away
- Center church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Center First United Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Open Door Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central Baptist Church - Center, TEXAS — 0.6 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.7 mi away
- Hillcrest Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Triumph Church — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Open Door Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central Baptist Church - Center, TEXAS — 0.6 mi away
- Hillcrest Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- St Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Center Missionary Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away