Forrest Baptist Church
Forrest Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Melrose, NM 88124. It is one of 5 churches in Melrose, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Melrose, NM, 88124Forrest Baptist Church 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 Forrest Baptist Church
It takes 16.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand 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: 34.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
- Poverty Rate: 24.1% (12.1–36.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 23.9%
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Obesity: 38.7%
- Depression: 26.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Forrest Baptist Church
- Church of the Prophecy — 0 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- Melrose First Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
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