First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 801 N Main St in Paris, TX 75460. It is one of 115 churches in Paris.
801 N Main St, Paris, TX, 75460Phone: (903) 632-5218 · Website: https://www.fbcparis.com/
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 — 71,419 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. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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: 51.2% (34.0–68.3%)
- Obesity: 46.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.2%
- Poverty Rate: 34.6% (23.6–45.7%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 27.8% (20.3–35.3%)
- Diabetes: 19.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.1%
- Depression: 25.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Greater New Faith Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Zion Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Word of Life Christian Center — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ Tudor Street — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Olive Branch Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Johnson Chapel Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mt Pisgah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater New Faith Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Olive Branch Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mt Pisgah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away