First Baptist Church of Kerrville

Texas Baptists of the church's early decades took up public causes. They backed the Anti-Saloon League when it reached Texas in 1907, and its presidents through 1918 were prominent Baptists. In 1908 the Baptist General Convention of Texas urged members to become politically active, and in 1915 it formed a Social Service Committee to look at labor and capital, landlords and tenants, and prison and child welfare. In 1950 the convention formed the Christian Life Commission, and in 1961 it united with the Mexican Baptist Convention of Texas.

What the plaque says

First Baptist Church of Kerrville Kerrville Baptist Church was organized in June 1887 with eleven charter members. Seven years later the name was changed to First Baptist Church of Kerrville. Originally meeting in a Union church with other denominations in the community, the Baptist congregation built its first sanctuary in 1897. It was replaced by a brick building in 1914, and the present house of worship was completed in 1951. A part of Kerrville history for over one hundred years, this church continues to serve the community. (1988)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Schreiner Mansion — 0.4 mi
  The 1879 downtown home of Charles Schreiner, the Alsatian-born merchant, banker and rancher whose store and mohair trade built Kerrville.
• Treue der Union Monument — 14 mi
  An 1866 German-language monument in Comfort over the graves of Hill Country Unionists killed at the Nueces in 1862, its flag of thirty-six stars kept at half-staff.
• Old Tunnel State Park — 19 mi
  A railroad tunnel abandoned in 1942 that now shelters up to three million Mexican free-tailed bats, who fly out each evening from May through October.
• Fort Martin Scott — 22 mi
  An army post of 1848 on Barons Creek beside the German town, where soldiers kept the peace of a Comanche trade and paid the merchants in hard cash.

More markers nearby

• Zion Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi
• The Original Building of Tivy School — 0.2 mi
• Beitel Lumberyard — 0.3 mi
• James Kerr — 0.3 mi