First Baptist Church of Jal
First Baptist Church of Jal is a Baptist church in Jal, NM 88252. It is one of 6 churches in Jal.
Jal, NM, 88252First Baptist Church of Jal 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 of Jal
It takes 17.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 25.2%
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.6%
- Unemployment: 10.4% (4.0–17.0%)
- Obesity: 36.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.0%
- Poverty Rate: 17.4% (7.7–27.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (6.6–18.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Jal
- Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Jal Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Cecilia Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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