Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana
Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana is a Baptist church at 905 South Chaparro Street in Las Cruces, NM 88001. It is one of 165 churches in Las Cruces, and one of 19 Baptist congregations in the city.
905 South Chaparro Street, Las Cruces, NM, 88001Phone: (575) 526-5414
Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 374 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Mexico — 71,418 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 Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana
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. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third 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: 34.7% (22.0–47.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 32.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.9%
- Unemployment: 13.5% (4.3–22.8%)
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Child Poverty: 31.5% (11.7–51.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.9%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (6.3–22.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Las Cruces city is served by 96 churches — about one congregation for every 981 residents.
Churches near Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana
- Apostolic Church of God and Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Church Of The Crosses — 0.2 mi away
- Fountain of Life Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church Of God Of Prophecy — 0.2 mi away
- Immaculate Heart of Mary Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
- The Salvation Army Christian Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Living Word Family Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church on the Rock — 0.5 mi away
- El Templo de Dios — 0.5 mi away
- First Evangelical Free Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Bethel Second Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Mountain View Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church Las Cruces — 1.2 mi away
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