First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 213 East 3rd Street in Sweetwater, TX 79556. It is one of 37 churches in Sweetwater, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
213 East 3rd Street, Sweetwater, TX, 79556Service times
Monday - Thursday:8:30 am (as listed)
First 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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Latest from FBCSweetwater's YouTube channel: 8/2/2026 - Finding God in the Martyrs (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. Nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.1%
- Diabetes: 18.4%
- Obesity: 42.6%
- Child Poverty: 34.2% (20.6–47.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 26.0% (18.0–34.1%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.7% (10.8–22.6%)
- Depression: 24.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Sweetwater city is served by 25 churches — about one congregation for every 410 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- 4th and Elm Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Stephens Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sweetwater Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Family Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Identity Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.3 mi away
- First Assembly of God — 0.3 mi away
- Broadway Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Apostolic Tabernacle — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Broadway Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Lamar Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Zion Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Highland Baptist Church — 1 mi away