First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1700 Avenue K in Tahoka, TX 79373. It is one of 10 churches in Tahoka, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
We are calling all generations to be full devoted followers of Christ.
Serving since 1902
1700 Avenue K, Tahoka, TX, 79373First 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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Watch
Latest from FBC Tahoka's YouTube channel: 08/02/26 Sunday Morning Worship (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance, and about 1 in 5 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.5%
- Diabetes: 18.2%
- Obesity: 41.0%
- Child Poverty: 37.0% (19.1–55.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 22.3% (13.9–30.8%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.3% (10.8–25.8%)
- Unemployment: 6.7% (2.2–11.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Tahoka city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 383 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Crosswork Church — 0.2 mi away
- Tahoka Trinity Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sweet Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Jude Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Getsemani — 0.5 mi away
- Tahoka Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sweet Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Getsemani — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 11.2 mi away in Wilson, TX
- New Home Baptist Church — 13 mi away in New Home, TX
- First Baptist Church O'Donnell — 14 mi away in O'Donnell, TX