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Richmond's First Baptist Church is a unique congregation where people from diverse cultural, ethnic, economic and religious backgrounds join together to put God’s love in action. All find a home in our church with opportunities for spiritual growth, fellowship, and service.

Our people celebrate and draw strength from our diversity, which finds its unity in the Lord Jesus Christ. We embrace an international perspective with more than ten different languages spoken among our members. Men and women serve as deacons and as ordained staff in leading services and preaching sermons.

Jan 31, 2016

Jim Somerville: "I could understand division between Democrats and Republicans, but watch the debates and you’ll see that there is division within the parties. I don’t know when I’ve ever seen so much finger-pointing and name-calling..."


Jan 24, 2016

Jim Somerville: "This church is special. As I often say, if you could put us all on one pew you would have the full spectrum of political and theological diversity. But you would also have the full spectrum of ethnic and economic diversity. This church is a lot like that body Paul talks about, with all its different...


Jan 17, 2016

Jim Somerville: "'I did the math: using today’s standards of six ounces per wine glass, each water pot held 640 glasses. Multiply that by six water pots and you get 3,840 glasses. Estimating five glasses per wine bottle, and twelve bottles per case, those six water pots held the equivalent of 768 bottles, or 64 cases...


Jan 10, 2016

Jim Somerville: "I tried to remember what it was in my own life that moved me to be baptized, and although the story is a long one, and a strange one, maybe you can hear some echoes of your own story."


Jan 3, 2016

Jim Somerville: "A few weeks ago I told you that with some people, the better you get to know them the more you see their humanity, but with Jesus, the better you get to know him the more you see his divinity..."