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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.

Jan 24, 2016

Jim Somerville: "This church is special. As I often say, if you could put us all on one pew you would have the full spectrum of political and theological diversity. But you would also have the full spectrum of ethnic and economic diversity. This church is a lot like that body Paul talks about, with all its different parts, and in that sense it is, more than many churches, like the body of Christ."