First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1200 9th Street in Wichita Falls, TX 76301. It is one of 174 churches in Wichita Falls, and one of 29 Baptist congregations in the city.
Services in Spanish
1200 9th Street, Wichita Falls, TX, 76301Website: http://www.fbcwf.org/children
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Missions
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 56.1% (37.2–75.1%)
- Obesity: 47.3%
- Poverty Rate: 45.4% (28.9–62.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 34.9% (25.0–44.8%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 31.1%
- Diabetes: 22.7%
- Depression: 26.5%
- Unemployment: 7.0% (0.4–15.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Wichita Falls city is served by 92 churches — about one congregation for every 872 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Korean Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Onelife Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Oneighty Students — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Good Shepherd — 0.2 mi away
- Tenth and Broad Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Paul Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Safe Harbor Church WFMCC — 0.5 mi away