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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.

Nov 26, 2017

Jim Somerville: "Compassion, the ability to see the suffering of others, to feel their pain, and to do something about it, sets the citizens of [Christ's] kingdom apart. His judgment at the last day may not be so much about deciding who goes to heaven and who goes to hell, but about identifying those people who have...


Nov 26, 2017

Dr. Jim Somerville's sermon to the children from Sunday, November 26, 2017.


Nov 19, 2017

Dr. Jim Somerville's "Talkback" from Sunday, November 19, 2017. In this visit with the Upper Room and Gold Band classes, discussions include how technology is changing the way people engage with Richmond's First Baptist Church; 110% Sunday and the importance of tithing; the pastor's recent experience with Encounter RVA...


Nov 19, 2017

Jim Somerville: "I was [once] convinced that the difference between being welcomed into the joy of your Master and being cast into the outer darkness was the difference between being fearless with what you had been given and being fearful. But now I’m not so sure. Maybe the difference is not between being fearless and...


Nov 12, 2017

Karen Brown: "We live in hope here on earth. We live every day with the expectant hope of what Christ can do through us -- every day. We live with the expectant hope that Jesus is coming back but we are doing our part to make the world more like Jesus until his final return..."