First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 475 East Texas Avenue in Waskom, TX 75692. It is one of 22 churches in Waskom, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
475 East Texas Avenue, Waskom, TX, 75692First 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 — 71,418 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.
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The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
- Food Insecurity: 22.3%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (3.3–14.5%)
- Obesity: 39.0%
- Depression: 24.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
- Diabetes: 14.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Waskom city is served by 4 churches — about one congregation for every 821 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.1 mi away
- United Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Westwood Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Waskom Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel Temple PCG-Templo Bethel — 0.3 mi away
- Waskom First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Waskom United Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jesus Full Gospel Church — 0.7 mi away
- Union Chapel — 0.7 mi away
- God's House — 1 mi away in Greenwood, LA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Westwood Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Victory Missionary Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Greenwood, LA
- First Baptist Church of Greenwood — 5.4 mi away in Greenwood, LA
- Starlight Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away in Shreveport, LA