First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in House, NM 88121.
House, NM, 88121First 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
It takes 20.0 miles in every direction to gather 1,700 neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 32.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.8%
- Poverty Rate: 23.1% (12.8–33.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.7%
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Obesity: 37.1%
- Child Poverty: 27.0% (9.9–44.1%)
- Depression: 24.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
More Baptist churches nearby
- Forrest Baptist Church — 21.5 mi away in Melrose, NM
- Melrose First Baptist Church — 21.5 mi away in Melrose, NM
- First Baptist Church — 22.9 mi away in Fort Sumner, NM