First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Paris, TX 75460. It is one of 115 churches in Paris, and one of 29 Baptist congregations in the city.
Paris, TX, 75460First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,377 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,417 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 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 44.1% (26.8–61.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.4%
- Poverty Rate: 32.5% (22.5–42.6%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.4% (17.5–31.3%)
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Obesity: 45.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.7%
- Depression: 26.2%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (1.7–11.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Paris city is served by 65 churches — about one congregation for every 306 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Central Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Holy Cross — 0.1 mi away
- Trumpet Magazine — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Living Word Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Johnson Chapel Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Graham Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Graham Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Olive Branch Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Galilee Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away