First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 229 S Read St in Lovelady, TX 75851. It is one of 17 churches in Lovelady, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
229 S Read St, Lovelady, TX, 75851Phone: (936) 636-7869 · Website: https://www.fbclovelady.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.
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The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 5.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 working-age adults live without health insurance, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.8%
- Unemployment: 8.9% (0.1–18.3%)
- Obesity: 39.2%
- Poverty Rate: 17.5% (9.9–25.1%)
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (5.4–17.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lovelady United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lovelady Church — 0.3 mi away
- Real truth for Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Lovelady Assembly Of God — 1.3 mi away
- Mount Olive Church — 1.8 mi away
- Smith Grove Church of Christ — 3.6 mi away
- Antioch Church — 4 mi away
- Lone Pine Church — 4.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Antioch Church — 4 mi away
- Thankful Missionary Baptist Church — 6.7 mi away in Crockett, TX
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 8 mi away in Crockett, TX
- New Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 8.3 mi away in Crockett, TX