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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.

May 27, 2018

Jim Somerville: "Sometimes—not always, but sometimes—you have an experience of worship you will never forget. It happened to me on Thursday. I was in Washington for a national preaching conference called the 'Festival of Homiletics' when I heard that Michael Curry was going to be in town..."


May 23, 2018

Joe Boykin: "As a surgeon you become very self-reliant. But being a Christian, you try to stay focused on what you can't see: the powers that are around you that actually give us purpose and hope. And those are the things that sometimes we lose track of..."


May 21, 2018

Allie Osborne: "God said that he would pour out his spirit on all people. All people, he said: the young, the old, the men, the women, the Pentecostals, the Baptists, the believers, the non-believers, the insiders, the outsiders, those who understood, and those who didn't. That day, when the tongues of fire came...


May 20, 2018

Jim Somerville: "You know how some people will say to you on your birthday, when you're getting older, 'You look good for your age!' What would they say to the church on her one thousand, nine hundred, and eighty-fifth birthday? How's she looking these days?"


May 20, 2018

Dr. Jim Somerville's sermon to the children from Sunday, May 20, 2018.