First Missionary Baptist Church
First Missionary Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 4542 Briscoe St in Houston, TX 77051-2008. It is one of 3,337 churches in Houston, and one of 64 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to edify the body of Christ, prepare facilities for worship and study, biblically educate our members, and stand on the foundation laid by Jesus Christ.
At First Missionary Baptist Church of Houston, our vision is to restore and call to order those things that God has called us to do. We are dedicated to winning souls and making disciples for Jesus Christ.
4542 Briscoe St, Houston, TX, 77051-2008Service times
Friday of the month, from 8:00 a.m (as listed)
Phone: (281) 224-7124 · Website: https://www.fmbcofhouston.org/
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 — 71,420 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 Missionary Baptist Church
- Food Distribution
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The community around First Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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.
- Child Poverty: 56.3% (38.4–74.2%)
- Obesity: 49.1%
- Poverty Rate: 38.9% (27.3–50.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.5% (16.3–30.7%)
- Diabetes: 21.6%
- Unemployment: 16.0% (7.4–24.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Missionary Baptist Church
- Bread of Life Christian C — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Resurrection Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Peters Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Community Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Resurrection Houston — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Hebron Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pisidia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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- Mount Hebron Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pisidia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away