First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Wellington, TX 79095. It is one of 14 churches in Wellington, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
At First Baptist Wellington, gathering together is our great joy. Our primary purpose is to be a local church that lives out the Christian life together, encouraging one another and glorifying God together.
Wellington, TX, 79095Service times
Sunday | 9:30 AM (as listed)
Phone: (806) 447-5353 · Website: http://www.wellingtonbaptist.org/
First 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Summer Kids and Youth Camp
- Wednesday Bible Study and Prayer
- Brown Christian Library
- Men's Prayer and Bible Study
- Samaritan's Purse Shoeboxes
- Women's Ministry
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The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 14.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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.
- Child Poverty: 35.0% (23.1–47.3%)
- Social Isolation: 32.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.0%
- Food Insecurity: 23.0%
- Poverty Rate: 22.7% (15.2–30.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.2% (13.2–25.2%)
- Obesity: 38.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Templo Emmanuel Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bowie St Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wellington, TX Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Our Mother of Mercy Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Fundamental Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Tabernacle of Praise "Wellington Campus" — 0.7 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Fundamental Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 19.9 mi away in Memphis, TX
- New Mount Zion Baptist Church — 19.9 mi away in Memphis, TX