first Baptist church
first Baptist church is a Baptist church at fm 517 E in Dickinson, TX 77539. It is one of 44 churches in Dickinson, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1841 · Services in Spanish · Accessible parking
fm 517 E, Dickinson, TX, 77539Phone: (281) 534-3585 · Website: https://www.houstonsfirst.org/
Shares a ministry location with First Presbyterian Church.
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.
Ministries at first Baptist church
- Worship Choir
- PATHMAKERS
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The community around first Baptist church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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.
- Unemployment: 8.0% (2.7–13.7%)
- Child Poverty: 23.3% (11.5–36.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.0%
- Poverty Rate: 19.1% (9.9–28.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.4% (6.4–22.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near first Baptist church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
- First Love Dickinson — 0.2 mi away
- Pine Drive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Valiant Church — 0.3 mi away
- 3rd Coast Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church Dickinson — 0.4 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mainland Community Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mainland Community Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pine Drive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- 3rd Coast Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Dickinson — 1.4 mi away
- New Directions Missionary Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Hitchcock, TX
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away