First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 276 Magnolia St W in Garrison, TX 75946. It is one of 17 churches in Garrison, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
At FBC our heart beats for Missions! We desire to be found faithful taking the gospel across the street, across the borders and across the oceans to all peoples in all places!
In 1887 a small, but determined group of Baptist believers met together in the new and growing town of Garrison, Texas. They were committed to planting a church and spreading the gospel throughout east Texas.
276 Magnolia St W, Garrison, TX, 75946Service times
- Sunday 9:45am · SCHOOL
Phone: (936) 347-2316 · Website: https://www.fbcgarrison.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.
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The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 4.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, 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.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.5% (9.5–23.6%)
- Diabetes: 15.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Depression: 24.0%
- Poverty Rate: 16.6% (10.6–22.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Garrison Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Sweet Union Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Spirit of Life Church UPC — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Moriah Church — 2.8 mi away
- Old Briley Town Church — 3.5 mi away
- Cold Springs Church — 3.5 mi away
- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Timpson, TX
- Epiphany Catholic Mission — 4.3 mi away in Timpson, TX
- Walnut Grove Church — 4.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Good Hope Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Timpson, TX
- Holly Springs Baptist Church — 7.5 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 10.1 mi away in Nacogdoches, TX
- Appleby Church — 10.3 mi away in Appleby, TX
- Trinity Baptist Church — 11.3 mi away in Nacogdoches, TX