First Baptist Church Waco
First Baptist Church Waco is a Baptist church at 500 Webster Avenue in Waco, TX 76706. It is one of 284 churches in Waco, and one of 64 Baptist congregations in the city.
First Baptist Church Waco exists to lead all generations to love God, one another and the world in the Spirit of Jesus.
500 Webster Avenue, Waco, TX, 76706Website: http://fbcwaco.org/servicio-en-espanol/
First Baptist Church Waco 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 Waco
- Preschool Ministries & Development Center
- Youth Ministry
- Children's Ministry
- Sports Leagues
- Vacation Bible School
- Summer Day Camp
- Adult Ministries
- Graduate & Young Adults
- Sunday Bible Studies
- Midweek Happenings
- Missions
- Sanctuary Choir
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Latest from First Baptist Church Waco's YouTube channel: Sunday Morning Service, September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church Waco
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 32.2% (21.8–42.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
- Depression: 27.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.6% (9.1–22.0%)
- Obesity: 36.8%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (0.7–13.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Waco city is served by 124 churches — about one congregation for every 1,084 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church Waco
- Calvary Chapel Waco — 0.1 mi away
- Clay Street Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Waco Spanish Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St James United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Union Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Connect Church — 0.3 mi away
- Harris Creek Downtown — 0.4 mi away
- Glory Bell Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Hip Hop Hope Waco — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Hip Hop Hope Waco — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church N.B.C. — 0.6 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Bautista — 0.7 mi away