Christian Challenge - NMSU
Christian Challenge - NMSU is a Southern Baptist church at 1313 East University Avenue in Las Cruces, NM 88001. It is one of 165 churches in Las Cruces, and one of 2 Southern Baptist congregations in the city.
Christian Challenge is a Collegiate Ministry of the Baptist Convention of New Mexico
1313 East University Avenue, Las Cruces, NM, 88001Service times
- Thursday 9pm
Phone: (575) 522-7370 · Website: https://www.nmsuchristianchallenge.org
Christian Challenge - NMSU is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 374 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Mexico — 71,417 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 Christian Challenge - NMSU
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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.
- Poverty Rate: 39.1% (27.4–50.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 29.8%
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.6%
- Unemployment: 9.2% (3.5–14.9%)
- Depression: 26.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Las Cruces city is served by 96 churches — about one congregation for every 981 residents.
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- University United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Journey Church — 0.5 mi away
- Vino Nuevo Las Cruces — 0.5 mi away
- Victory Outreach Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.5 mi away
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