First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 11831 FM 902 in Dorchester, TX 75459-2421.
Passionate about sharing the hope of the Gospel, our church seeks to make a lasting impact through compassionate outreach, community involvement, and meaningful connections.
FBC Dorchester Texas, is a warm community that is dedicated to loving God, loving people, and equipping disciples for a life of purpose and service.
11831 FM 902, Dorchester, TX, 75459-2421Service times
- Sunday 9:45am
- Sunday, Wednesday 6pm · Youth group meets
- Sunday, Wednesday 9:30am · Youth group meets
Phone: (903) 476-5525 · Website: https://firstdorchester.com/
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
- Children's Ministry
- Student Program
- Adult Ministry
Find First Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 10 the people here live without health insurance, and about 1 in 10 the people here were born in another country. 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.
- Depression: 23.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (7.0–17.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Howe Church of Christ — 4.6 mi away in Howe, TX
- First United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away in Howe, TX
- Howe Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away in Howe, TX
- Community Bible Fellowship — 4.7 mi away in Howe, TX
- The Summit Church — 4.8 mi away in Howe, TX
- First Baptist Church of Gunter — 4.8 mi away in Gunter, TX
- First Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Howe, TX
- The Inn Church — 5.1 mi away in Howe, TX
- Summit View Church — 5.1 mi away in Howe, TX
- New Beginning Fellowship — 5.2 mi away in Howe, TX
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