First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 255 9th St in Somerville, TX 77879. It is one of 12 churches in Somerville, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
255 9th St, Somerville, TX, 77879Phone: (979) 596-1023 · Website: https://www.fbcsomerville.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 — 71,420 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 4.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and about 1 in 7 working-age adults live without health insurance. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.7%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Somerville Jubilee Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Ann Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Lutheran Church in Somerville — 0.6 mi away
- Sweet Home Church — 1.5 mi away
- Community Chapel — 2.6 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 3.1 mi away in Brenham, TX
- Lyons Evangelical Church — 4 mi away in Caldwell, TX
- Hopewell Church — 4.2 mi away in Burton, TX
- The Bridge Fellowship — 5.6 mi away in Brenham, TX
More Baptist churches nearby
- Reliance Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away
- Zion Hill Church — 7.3 mi away in Burton, TX
- Little Flock Church — 10.8 mi away
- Independence Baptist Church — 11.1 mi away in Brenham, TX
- First Baptist Church Burton — 11.7 mi away in Burton, TX