Mount Carmel Baptist Church
Mount Carmel Baptist Church is a church at 955 South Walnut Street in Las Cruces, NM 88001. It is one of 165 churches in Las Cruces.
955 South Walnut Street, Las Cruces, NM, 88001Mount Carmel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 371 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Mexico — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Mount Carmel Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 31.8%
- Poverty Rate: 30.4% (18.9–41.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.6%
- Unemployment: 12.4% (3.8–21.0%)
- Social Isolation: 35.9%
- Child Poverty: 31.2% (11.4–51.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.4%
- Diabetes: 15.0%
- Obesity: 39.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.3%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 1 census tracts near this church.
Las Cruces city is served by 96 churches — about one congregation for every 981 residents.
Churches near Mount Carmel Baptist Church
- Fountain of Life Apostolic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church Of God Of Prophecy — 0.6 mi away
- The Salvation Army Christian Fellowship — 0.7 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Peace Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Evangelical Free Church — 0.8 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana — 0.8 mi away
- Church Of The Crosses — 0.8 mi away
- LDS Meetinghouse — 0.8 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana — 0.8 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Christian Challenge - NMSU — 1.5 mi away
- Bethel Second Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
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