First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 9623 North 2nd Street in Murchison, TX 75778. It is one of 7 churches in Murchison.
9623 North 2nd Street, Murchison, TX, 75778First 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 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.5% (9.9–35.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.8%
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Obesity: 36.6%
- Depression: 25.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Murchison Bible Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ash Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Athens, TX
- Mount Zion Church — 3.1 mi away in Athens, TX
- Flat Creek Church — 3.2 mi away in Athens, TX
- Lake Athens Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Athens, TX
- Barton's Chapel Assembly of God — 4.4 mi away
- Shady Grove Church — 4.4 mi away
- Opelika Missionary Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Brownsboro, TX
- Shelby Chapel — 5 mi away in Athens, TX
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lake Athens Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Athens, TX
- Lake Athens Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Athens, TX
- Sand Springs Baptist Church — 6 mi away in Athens, TX
- Leagueville Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away
- Living for the Brand Cowboy Church — 6.6 mi away in Athens, TX