First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 405 West Austin Street in Marshall, TX 75670. It is one of 130 churches in Marshall, and one of 18 Baptist congregations in the city.
FBC Marshall is dedicated to gathering as a cross section of Marshall, Texas to demonstrate together the liberating grace of God in Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit.
405 West Austin Street, Marshall, TX, 75670First 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
- Local Organizations
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Latest from First Baptist Church Marshall Texas's YouTube channel: Why I am (Still) a Christian Part 8: The Faithfulness of God (all videos).
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. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Child Poverty: 70.6% (52.7–88.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 31.6% (18.6–44.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.2% (14.8–31.5%)
- Obesity: 44.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.7%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Unemployment: 10.4% (3.0–17.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Marshall city is served by 50 churches — about one congregation for every 248 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grandy Way Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Marshall Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Heights Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethesda Missionary Baptist-Marshall, TX — 0.3 mi away
- Ebenezer Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Childress Deliverance Temple — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Central Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Peoples Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Marshall Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away