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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 30, 2018

Allie Osborne, Emma Tilley, and Josh Kim share their faith stories on Student Day at Christmas, December 30, 2018.


Dec 23, 2018

Jim Somerville: "Can Christmas still change the world? That's the question the authors of Advent Conspiracy were asking. 'The false doctrine of consumer religion insists, again and again, that money equals love.' On Christmas Day God comes near, as he always does and always is, and we miss it, because we are once again...


Dec 16, 2018

Jim Somerville: "Do this right now: make a mental list of all the things you got for Christmas last year. Got it? No, neither do I. So many of the things we get at Christmas are completely forgettable. But there are some gifts we will never forget..."


Dec 9, 2018

Jim Somerville: "Is that it? Is Christmas these days just a way to stave off the mild depression that settles in on most of us in winter? Is that why we put lights up everywhere, on the front of our houses and on our Christmas trees? Is it why we race from one party to another
during the month of December...?"


Dec 2, 2018

Ellie Somerville McNevin: "A few weeks ago I sat down with my family and said, 'Let’s be honest: we have everything we need and almost everything we want. So what if, this Christmas, we gave to people who don't have what they need?'..."