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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.

Dec 25, 2016

Jim Somerville: "I got a nice note from one of the children of the church asking if we could please call off services today..."


Dec 24, 2016

Jim Somerville: "Imagine a world where Christmas doesn't come on the 25th of December, but with the first snowfall of the year. In a world like that, you wouldn't know when Christmas was coming..."


Dec 24, 2016

Jim Somerville: "Eight years ago was my very first Christmas at Richmond's First Baptist Church. And in this very room I told a story that some people are still talking about. And I thought I'd tell it again tonight..."


Dec 18, 2016

Jim Somerville: "A world with God in it is a world where anything is possible, and that God has come into the world in Jesus Christ in a way he never had before, and that now things are possible in this world that never were before..."


Dec 11, 2016

Jim Somerville's "Talkback" from Sunday, December 11, 2016.