First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 121 North 1st Street in Lovington, NM 88260. It is one of 32 churches in Lovington, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
121 North 1st Street, Lovington, NM, 88260First 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 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 35.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 27.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.6%
- Obesity: 40.4%
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Poverty Rate: 24.1% (11.5–36.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.5% (8.8–22.3%)
- Unemployment: 9.5% (1.4–17.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
- Child Poverty: 22.4% (5.1–39.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.9%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Lovington city is served by 18 churches — about one congregation for every 474 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- First Methodist Church of Lovington — 0.2 mi away
- Príncipe de Paz Apostolic Assembly — 0.3 mi away
- Revolution Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Key Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Emanuel — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Spanish Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Jackson Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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