First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Mathis, TX 78368. It is one of 12 churches in Mathis, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Mathis, TX, 78368Website: http://www.fbcmathis.com
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 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 50.4% (32.3–68.5%)
- Obesity: 49.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 42.1%
- Poverty Rate: 37.2%
- Diabetes: 25.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.3% (14.8–25.8%)
- Unemployment: 9.5% (3.2–15.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Mathis city is served by 5 churches — about one congregation for every 902 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Methodist Parsonage First United Church — 0.1 mi away
- Harmony Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- A New Anointing Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Life Reach Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sacred Heart Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mathis church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Mennonite Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Pisgah Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Bautista — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Michaels Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Pisgah Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Lakeview Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away
- West Shore Baptist Church — 7.6 mi away in Sandia, TX
- West Shore Baptist Church — 7.9 mi away in Sandia, TX
- Baptist Church — 14.6 mi away