First Baptist Church-Covington
First Baptist Church-Covington is a Baptist church at 416 Gathings Ave in Covington, TX 76636-0018. It is one of 6 churches in Covington, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
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416 Gathings Ave, Covington, TX, 76636-0018Service times
- Sunday 10am · in September through May
Phone: (254) 854-2294 · Website: https://www.firstbaptistchurchinamerica.org
First Baptist Church-Covington 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-Covington
It takes 4.3 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 of adults here carry depression. 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): 18.0% (13.1–22.9%)
- Obesity: 36.0%
- Depression: 23.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church-Covington
- First Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Covington Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Covington — 1.1 mi away
- New Life Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Union Hill Church — 3.6 mi away
- Shiloh Church — 5.1 mi away in Itasca, TX
- Saint John Missionary Baptist Church — 6.4 mi away in Itasca, TX
- Church of Christ — 6.5 mi away in Itasca, TX
- First Presbyterian Church of Itasca — 6.5 mi away in Itasca, TX
- Reconciled Church — 6.5 mi away in Itasca, TX
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- Central Baptist Church — 6.5 mi away in Itasca, TX