First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 424 W Parker St in Elkhart, TX 75839-7613. It is one of 18 churches in Elkhart, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our desire is to help others develop a life changing relationship with Jesus and to help each other through the challenges that this world puts in front of us.
424 W Parker St, Elkhart, TX, 75839-7613Service times
- Sunday 6:30pm
Phone: (903) 764-5110 · Website: http://fbcelkhart.net/
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
- Food Bank
- Youth Ministry
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The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 4.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 36.6%
- Depression: 25.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.5%
- Diabetes: 13.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (8.7–18.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.9 mi away
- Elkhart Church of Christ — 1 mi away
- Pilgrim Church — 2 mi away
- Family of Faith Church — 2.2 mi away
- Rocky Mound Church — 2.8 mi away
- Salmon Church — 4.3 mi away
- Cedar Creek Church — 4.4 mi away in Palestine, TX
- Days Chapel — 4.9 mi away in Palestine, TX
- Beulah Church — 5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lakeside Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away
- Memory Lane Missionary Baptist Church — 7.8 mi away in Palestine, TX
- Saint James Church — 8.5 mi away
- Oak Grove Church — 8.5 mi away in Grapeland, TX
- Calvary Baptist Church — 8.6 mi away in Palestine, TX