First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 801 South 1st Street in Lamesa, TX 79331. It is one of 31 churches in Lamesa, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
We are simply trying to fulfill the Great Commission and the Great Commandment, by Loving God, Loving People, and Sharing Life.
Part of Southern Baptist Convention
801 South 1st Street, Lamesa, TX, 79331First 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.
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. About a third of working-age adults live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 30.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 26.7% (17.7–35.6%)
- Diabetes: 20.2%
- Obesity: 41.8%
- Unemployment: 10.7% (2.9–18.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 18.7% (11.2–26.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Lamesa city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 207 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Saint Margaret Mary Catholic Church Convent — 0.1 mi away
- Mosaic Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- La Trinidad United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cornerstone Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Family Harvest Church — 0.3 mi away
- River Of Life Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Methodist Church Lamesa Texas — 0.4 mi away
- Templo Elim Spanish Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Northside Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Sunset Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Crestview Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away