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The 2025-2026 Scholarship Cycle for First Baptist Church is now open! Merit Scholarship We are pleased to offer the FBC Merit Scholarship for the 2025-2026 academic year! Click the arrow in the lower left corner to view the second page. To download the application for the 2025-2026 FBC Merit Scholarship, please click here. Please mail completed packets for these scholarships to: First Baptist Church Officec/o Scholarship Committee700 Highland AvenueWinston-Salem, NC 27101 Packets for the FBC Merit Scholarship must be received…

First Baptist Church hosted the Installation Weekend of our twelfth senior pastor, Reverend Samuel J. Doyle, on March 28-30, 2025. It was a full weekend of celebration for Rev. Doyle, his family, our congregation, and guests from Winston-Salem and the wider community. Guest Speakers For information about the guest speakers for the weekend, please click here. Programs Video Streams Click here for the complete playlist. Audio Streams Photos The Installation Banquet Click here for the complete album. The Installation Ceremony…

We invite everyone to support the Winston-Salem State University Singing Rams at their Annual Spring Concert under the direction of Maestra D’Walla Simmons-Burke! The special guest is Willie Mason & Friends! It will be held on Sunday, April 27 at 4:00 p.m. at Galilee Missionary Baptist Church (4129 Northampton Drive, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27105)! Click the image to enlarge.

We will observe Good Friday (Friday, April 18) this year with students from the Wake Forest University School of Divinity presenting “The Seven Last Words of Christ.” Bulletin Media

Happy Birthday to our members celebrating a birthday in April 2025!

This year’s Baptist Training Institute will be held Monday, April 28 through Friday, May 2, 2025 from 6:00 p.m. until 8:15 p.m. Piney Grove Baptist Church, where Rev. Brandon Helton serves as Senior Pastor, will serve as host. Study books for the Training Institute are available for $12.00 each, with 10 copies currently in stock. If you’d like to purchase a book, please visit the church office during business hours, where Ms. Kennetta Smith will assist you. Payment can be…

Congratulations to the Lay Ministry of Caregivers, who are celebrating their 29th anniversary of service! For more information about this ministry, please click here.

Because of your donations, First Baptist Church raised $5,106.14 for the 2024 Winston-Salem/Forsyth County CROP Hunger Walk held last October! Donations will be distributed to Church World Service, Crisis Control Ministry, and Sunnyside Ministry. We remain one of the Top Ten Fundraising Teams. Special thanks to Mary and Dean Fox for their work in this mission! We thank you for blessing others toward ending hunger locally and globally!

We invite everyone to join us for Corporate Prayer on the first Saturday of each month in 2025. It will be held in the Sanctuary of First Baptist Church at 11:00 a.m. As Reverend Doyle says, “When we pray together, we worship together, we study together, and we fellowship together, we’ll be able to work together.”

Happy Birthday to our members celebrating a birthday in March 2025!