Wells First Baptist Church
Wells First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 673 Rusk Ave in Wells, TX 75976-4154. It is one of 7 churches in Wells, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our goal is to be a people whose lives are changed by the presence of God, whose families grow in faith, and who carry the Gospel to the heart of every generation.
We exist to help people experience God, follow Jesus, and be transformed by the Holy Spirit by reaching the lost and equipping the saved
673 Rusk Ave, Wells, TX, 75976-4154Phone: +19368674900 · Website: https://sites.google.com/view/wellsfirstbaptistchurch/home?authuser=1
Wells First 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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Latest from Wells First Baptist Church's YouTube channel: Sunday Evening Worship 9/15/25 (all videos).
The community around Wells First Baptist Church
It takes 4.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and about 1 in 7 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: 28.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.0% (9.5–24.4%)
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Obesity: 38.6%
- Depression: 25.9%
- Poverty Rate: 19.6% (8.9–30.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Wells First Baptist Church
- Living Water Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Wells — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sweet Union Chr-God & Christ — 0.6 mi away
- The River, Wells Tx, a church for whosoever — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Sweet Union Church — 4.9 mi away in Pollok, TX
- Sweet Union Church Of God In Christ — 5.5 mi away in Alto, TX
- New Center Prospect Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away in Pollok, TX
- Barsola Church — 5.9 mi away in Alto, TX
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Center Prospect Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away in Pollok, TX
- Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 10.2 mi away in Kennard, TX
- Lancewood Baptist Church — 12.2 mi away in Lufkin, TX
- Hilltop Baptist Church — 12.7 mi away in Alto, TX