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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.

Jun 24, 2018

Melody and Mark Roane: "'Twenty years.' That's what doctors told my parents in 1977 when I became totally blind. They would have a cure for my blindness in twenty years. It all started in the summer of 1975 when I was six years old..."


Jun 24, 2018

Jim Somerville: "But maybe this is why Jesus was disappointed in [his disciples]: because it dawned on them only then that God was with them. Hadn't he been with them all along? Wasn't he with them as Jesus healed the sick, cleansed the lepers, raised the dead, and cast out demons? Isn't he with...


Jun 17, 2018

Jim Somerville: "If we only had eyes to see it, we could see that God is at work in this world. That the kingdom is growing secretly while we lie down and rise up. That the kingdom is growing everywhere like runaway weeds..."


Jun 17, 2018

Dr. Jim Somerville's sermon to the children from Sunday, June 17, 2018.


Jun 10, 2018

Jim Somerville: "In my work as a pastor I have talked with people who were afraid they had committed the unforgiveable sin. And some of the sins they described to me were shocking; I'm not sure I would have been able to forgive them. But in almost every case I was able to reassure those people and say, 'No, as bad as...