First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1401 Washington Street in Commerce, TX 75428. It is one of 23 churches in Commerce, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Ours is a church dedicated to the vision of making an impact for Christ in our community and around the world.
We, the believers of First Baptist Church of Commerce, Texas, who are saved by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit, do declare our love for God and our commitment to His purpose.
1401 Washington Street, Commerce, TX, 75428Phone: (903) 886-3189 · Website: http://www.firstcommerce.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,377 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,417 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 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 30.5% (19.7–41.2%)
- Depression: 28.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.8%
- Obesity: 36.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (10.3–18.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Commerce city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 298 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Living Word Praise Chapel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Baptist Student Center — 0.3 mi away
- Commerce Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Healing Waters Assembly — 0.5 mi away
- Commerce Assembly Of God — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Baptist Student Center — 0.3 mi away
- Mt Pisgah Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Ridgecrest Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Ridgecrest Baptist Church Commerce — 1.1 mi away
- St Paul Baptist Church — 6.7 mi away in Greenville, TX