First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 209 East South Street in Longview, TX 75601. It is one of 234 churches in Longview, and one of 36 Baptist congregations in the city.
209 East South Street, Longview, TX, 75601Shares a ministry location with Iglesia Renacer and Ministerio Int. Puertas Abiertas.
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.
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 51.7% (34.4–69.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 34.9% (25.4–44.3%)
- Poverty Rate: 34.8% (23.6–45.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 27.0%
- Diabetes: 18.9%
- Obesity: 44.9%
- Depression: 23.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Longview city is served by 90 churches — about one congregation for every 813 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Ministerio Int. Puertas Abiertas — 0 mi away
- Iglesia Renacer — 0 mi away
- House Of Disciples — 0.1 mi away
- Wiseman Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Metropolitan Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church on Purpose — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Made To Love Ministries — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Growing Valley Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- North Side Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away