First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1320 S Elm St in Kemp, TX 75143-7712. It is one of 22 churches in Kemp, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
We exist to help others find Christ, lead each other to follow Christ, and equip one another to live on mission for Christ here and to the ends of the earth.
Rarely can churches look back on a storied history like First Baptist Kemp. Since 1882, First Baptist has been a voice of truth in southern Kaufman County.
1320 S Elm St, Kemp, TX, 75143-7712Phone: +19034984971 · Website: https://www.fbckemp.org/
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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Mentoring Program
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The community around First Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, 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 adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Obesity: 37.4%
- Depression: 24.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (9.9–17.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- East Gate Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Kemp Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away
- River of Life Church Kemp — 1 mi away
- Kemp Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 1.3 mi away
- Hillcrest Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Hillcrest Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Rockin' Country Church — 3.4 mi away
- Gossett Church — 3.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Hillcrest Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Hillcrest Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- New Beginnings Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Calvary Church — 5.2 mi away