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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.

Mar 29, 2018

Jim Somerville: "Whenever we take communion, we preach Christ crucified. We remember that God was, in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, and we see Christ reaching up toward heaven with one hand and reaching down toward earth with the other and bringing us together. We see him reaching out toward others with...


Mar 25, 2018

Dr. Jim Somerville's "Pastor's Class" from Sunday, March 25, 2018.


Mar 25, 2018

Jim Somerville: "Our culture loves success. It's the most honorable thing there is. And the most shameful thing? It's losing. Losing the big game, losing your job, losing your house. [But] God doesn't see things the way the world sees them. What looks like success to the world doesn't look like success to him, and what...


Mar 18, 2018

Ellen Lipford: "I was mourning the loss of a dear friend [who] took her own life. I distinctly remember the numb, confused feeling of my heartbreak. I knew that God was good. But I started to question what his goodness looked like against the backdrop of such a broken world. What does good look like when there is...


Mar 18, 2018

Dr. Jim Somerville's "Pastor's Class" from Sunday, March 18, 2018.