First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church at 501 East Van Buren Avenue in Harlingen, TX 78550. It is one of 93 churches in Harlingen.

501 East Van Buren Avenue, Harlingen, TX, 78550

Phone: +1-956-423-0470 · Website: https://www.fbcharlingen.org/

First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,496 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 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 First Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of working-age adults live without health insurance, and more than 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 38.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.1%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 36.1% (25.8–46.4%)
  • Diabetes: 21.8%
  • Obesity: 43.3%
  • Child Poverty: 40.0% (22.3–57.7%)
  • Poverty Rate: 29.6% (17.7–41.4%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Harlingen city is served by 27 churches — about one congregation for every 2,429 residents.

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