First Baptist Church

About First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church Galveston was established in January 1840, when missionary Rev. Dr. Huckins organized a congregation of eleven charter members that included Gail Borden. The church's 1882 sanctuary was destroyed in the 1900 hurricane, which claimed 44 church members among more than 6,000 lives, and the congregation rebuilt. In 1944 the church founded Primera Iglesia Bautista, now the oldest Hispanic church in Galveston. After Hurricanes Rita (2005) and Ike (2008), First Baptist became a community service hub, providing showers, laundry, medical care, and food assistance to roughly 10,000 people. Its mission: "Live out God's word into His world."