Find a Bible study in Fort Worth, or start one at your table.

Updated 28 September 2026. Room costs and rules below come from the City of Fort Worth's own pages. Check them again before you book.

Most Fort Worth Bible studies that last will meet in a living room. It costs nothing, you can eat, and nobody has to leave when a rental clock runs out. Ask each person where they will be coming from on the night, which is often work and not home, then pick the house that is easiest for most.

Northside, Stop Six, Como and the Southside

On the Northside, Northside Library at 601 Park Street has Spanish and English staff and a rentable meeting room that seats ten at a built-in booth. That size suits a first bilingual reading.

In Stop Six, East Berry Library sits at 4300 E. Berry Street, and Berry Street is one of the neighborhood's boundaries. Its branch page does not list a meeting room, so a home nearby is the realistic choice.

On the west side, near Como, one option is Ridglea Library at 3628 Bernie Anderson Avenue. Ask staff what space it has before you invite anyone.

South of downtown, the Ella Mae Shamblee Library at 1062 Evans Avenue has a meeting room with a catering kitchen, useful if your group wants to share a meal around the reading.

What a library room costs and what the rules say

Fort Worth charges for library rooms: $35 an hour, or $15 for a nonprofit that shows its 501(c)(3) papers. Registered neighborhood associations use them free. The city's policy FAQ treats the rooms as a public forum, so staff do not approve or refuse bookings based on what a group believes. A Bible study books like anyone else.

The same FAQ sets some limits. One person or group can hold only two reservations a month across the whole library system. Any flyer or post about the meeting must say, "This event is not endorsed or sponsored by the City of Fort Worth." Everything has to stay inside the rented room, and sales and outside fundraising are not allowed. For a weekly study, that means a library room works for the occasional open meeting and a home carries the rest.

Meeting outdoors

Trinity Park, at 2401 University Drive near the Cultural District, is open 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. and has picnic shelters and grills. Alcohol is not allowed. The park dates to 1892 and was the city's first purchased parkland. If you want a pavilion guaranteed, the city rents them for $75 a half day for groups under 100, plus a damage deposit. In July and August, meet early or move indoors.

The first night

Plan about an hour. Eat first if you can. Read Matthew 5:1-16 aloud and ask two questions: what does Jesus say here, and what would it look like to do it in our part of Fort Worth this week? Let a skeptic finish a hard question without rushing to fix it. If you want a simple guide for the first few weeks, use the beginner group guide.

Fort Worth is a new growth area for these connections. The form below does not sign you up for an existing group. It tells us your neighborhood, and we can offer a small online group on Google Meet while local contacts grow.

Fort Worth's faith history runs deep

In 1875 twelve formerly enslaved people and Pastor C. A. Augustus organized Mount Gilead Baptist Church in a Black settlement called Baptist Hill. In 1912 the congregation moved into a neoclassical building on Grove Street, with six columns and a stained-glass dome. Wallace Rayfield, the second formally trained Black architect in the country, worked on the design. On 31 May 2026 the church held its last service in that building, which has been sold. The congregation now worships at the William M. McDonald YMCA in southeast Fort Worth.

St. Patrick's parish began in 1876 with a small frame church. Its limestone Gothic Revival building downtown was dedicated on 10 July 1892, and it is the city's oldest church building still in continuous use.

Mount Gilead and St. Patrick have their own pastors and teaching, and this guide is independent of both. Anyone who visits should still test what they hear by the Bible (Acts 17:11).