First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Belen, NM 87002. It is one of 22 churches in Belen.
Belen, NM, 87002Service times
10:30-11:30 (as listed)
Phone: +1 505-864-8621 · Website: https://fbcbelen.net/
First 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 First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, 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 the children here are growing up 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 42.9% (26.8–59.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
- Food Insecurity: 29.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.0%
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Poverty Rate: 24.8% (15.9–33.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.6%
- Diabetes: 17.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.5%
- Obesity: 37.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.0%
- Unemployment: 6.7% (1.3–12.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Belen city is served by 7 churches — about one congregation for every 571 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Belen Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Belen Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Our Lady of Belen Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Belen Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sunshine Church — 0.5 mi away
- Belen Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Holy Ghost and Fire Ministry — 0.7 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — 0.8 mi away
- Belen Congregation — 1 mi away
- Christian Faith Chapel — 1.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Belen Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sierra Vista Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Rio Communities, NM
- Vally Baptist Chruch — 2.4 mi away in Rio Communities, NM
- Valley Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away in Rio Communities, NM
- First Baptist Chruch of Los Chavez — 5.6 mi away