Where is First Baptist Church located?

First Baptist Church is at 301 Locust, Merkel, TX, 79536-5107.

What time are services at First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church meets Sunday at 9:30am (School). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Merkel, TX is a Baptist church. It is one of 3 Baptist congregations in Merkel.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 301 Locust in Merkel, TX 79536-5107. It is one of 16 churches in Merkel, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.

First Baptist Church | Merkel, TX is a place where people can meet Jesus, engage in life-giving community, and everyone is welcome.

301 Locust, Merkel, TX, 79536-5107

Service times

Sunday 9:30am · School

Phone: (325) 928-5351 · Website: https://firstbaptistchurchmerkeltx.snappages.site/

First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,418 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

In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.

Obesity: 37.2%
Depression: 24.7%
Child Poverty: 24.4% (13.2–35.6%)
Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
Diabetes: 13.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

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