First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 119 East Main Street in Van, TX 75790. It is one of 10 churches in Van, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Reaching every family with the Gospel is only the first step; intentional discipleship is our end goal.
Welcome to Van First Baptist Church has a very simple and compelling vision for our church, our community, our nation, and our world: Every Family Reached.
119 East Main Street, Van, TX, 75790Service times
- Tuesday, Thursday 8:30am
Phone: (903) 963-8391 · Website: https://www.fbcvan.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,377 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,417 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
- Discipleship Path
- Walk with the Wise
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Watch
Latest from First Baptist Van, TX's YouTube channel: 09/13/26 AM — James (#13) — Pastor Mark (James 2:20-26) (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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): 18.1% (11.4–24.8%)
- Depression: 25.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%
- Diabetes: 13.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Van Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Connections Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church of Van — 0.3 mi away
- Pruitt Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Van Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Union Chapel — 2.6 mi away in Lindale, TX
- Pruitt Baptist Church — 3 mi away
- Bethlehem Church — 3.1 mi away
- Galena Church — 3.2 mi away
- Prayer Wall — 4.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Grace Baptist Church of Van — 0.3 mi away
- Pruitt Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Pruitt Baptist Church — 3 mi away
- Friendly Center Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Ben Wheeler, TX
- Colfax Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Ben Wheeler, TX