First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1302 N Doherty Ave in Mission, TX 78572-4016. It is one of 76 churches in Mission.
Making disciples that follow Jesus is the mission, and God accomplishes this work through our members, volunteers, staff, and ministry partners.
Houston’s First Missions is fulfilling this commission all around the city, nation, and world, and thousands have already joined in our vast and varied efforts.
Serving since 1841 · Services in Spanish · Accessible parking
1302 N Doherty Ave, Mission, TX, 78572-4016Phone: +19565851442 · Website: https://www.houstonsfirst.org/missions
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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Missions
- Adoption, Foster and Orphan Care
- Helping Neighbors
- Missionary Care
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 working-age adults live without health insurance. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. That is 2,200 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.
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 32.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.7% (17.2–30.2%)
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Child Poverty: 37.3% (23.5–51.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 24.8% (15.7–34.0%)
- Diabetes: 17.6%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (2.3–11.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Christ Church RGV — 0.1 mi away
- St. John Chrysostom Anglican Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cristo Rey Lutheran Parish — 0.1 mi away
- Mission First Global Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Centro Cristiana Bethesda — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- La Respuesta Church Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Macedonia — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Manantial de Vida!! — 0.5 mi away
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- New Hope Baptist Church For The Deaf — 4.7 mi away in McAllen, TX