First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Karnes City, TX 78118. It is one of 9 churches in Karnes City, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Karnes City, TX, 78118Website: https://www.fbckarnescity.com/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,496 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,872 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.
Find First Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
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 2 in 10 working-age adults live without health insurance, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, 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 Adults 18-64: 28.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.6% (14.7–26.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
- Poverty Rate: 22.8% (12.8–32.8%)
- Diabetes: 16.0%
- Obesity: 39.1%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (0.7–13.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Karnes City Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Cornelius Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Prospect Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Pauls Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- First Assembly Of God Church — 0.9 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Church — 5 mi away
- First Mexican Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away in Kenedy, TX
More Baptist churches nearby
- Prospect Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Mexican Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away in Kenedy, TX
- First Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away in Kenedy, TX
- First Baptist Church — 11.3 mi away in Runge, TX
- Choate Baptist Church — 12.6 mi away in Kenedy, TX