First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 483 Harlan Avenue in Hermleigh, TX 79526. It is one of 2 churches in Hermleigh, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.

483 Harlan Avenue, Hermleigh, TX, 79526

First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,376 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,352 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 5.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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): 28.2% (17.2–39.2%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.9%
  • Obesity: 40.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
  • Diabetes: 15.3%
  • Depression: 23.5%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 1 census tracts near this church.

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