First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 306 N Main St in Rising Star, TX 76471-5300. It is one of 6 churches in Rising Star.
Our Purpose is to Love God & Love People!
306 N Main St, Rising Star, TX, 76471-5300Phone: (254) 643-4451 · Website: https://www.fbcrisingstar.org/
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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Children's Ministry
- Youth Ministry
- Helping Hands
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The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 8.3 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): 22.4% (15.0–29.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Depression: 24.0%
- Poverty Rate: 16.1% (9.4–22.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Amity Church — 5.2 mi away
- Wolf Valley Church — 5.3 mi away
- Blake Church — 6.4 mi away in Brownwood, TX
- Union Church — 8.4 mi away in Cisco, TX
- First Baptist Church — 8.6 mi away in May, TX
- Mountain Top Church — 8.8 mi away
- Long Branch Church — 9.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 12 mi away in Cross Plains, TX
- First Baptist Church — 14.1 mi away in Carbon, TX
- Cottonwood Baptist Church — 16 mi away in Cross Plains, TX
- New Hope Baptist Church — 16.2 mi away
- Sidney Baptist Church — 16.8 mi away in Sidney, TX