Greater First Missionary Baptist Church
Greater First Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Fort Worth, TX 76104. It is one of 1,178 churches in Fort Worth, and one of 291 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our Vision is to Glorify God our Father who art in Heaven and Edify the Body of Christ in everything we do and everything we say.
Thirty-Five years ago, Greater First Missionary Baptist Church (GFMBC) was organized under the leadership of our current pastor, Bishop J. L. Hunt Jr. We have supported our members and community over these many years and we will continue to do so.
Fort Worth, TX, 76104Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School
- Sunday 11am · Morning Worship
- Wednesday 7pm · Night Edification
Greater First Missionary 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 — 71,419 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 Greater First Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the people here live without health insurance, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 36.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 32.8%
- Poverty Rate: 25.5% (16.0–35.1%)
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Obesity: 39.7%
- Child Poverty: 22.6% (8.6–36.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Fort Worth city is served by 664 churches — about one congregation for every 1,300 residents.
Churches near Greater First Missionary Baptist Church
- Macedonia Ministry Center — 0.2 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Spoken Word Holy Tabernacle — 0.4 mi away
- Rebirth Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Morningside United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- King's Haven Worship Center — 0.4 mi away
- Templo Palacio Del Rey — 0.4 mi away
- Revival Temple — 0.5 mi away
- Mt Olive Missionary Baptist — 0.5 mi away
- Morningside Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Morningside Missionary Baptist — 0.6 mi away
- Travis Avenue Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Rose Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Community Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away