First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a church at 100 S Avenue C in Portales, NM 88130-5934. It is one of 36 churches in Portales.

100 S Avenue C, Portales, NM, 88130-5934

Phone: +15753566761 · Website: http://www.fbcportales.org

First 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 36.9% (20.1–53.8%)
  • Social Isolation: 36.6%
  • Food Insecurity: 21.3%
  • Depression: 24.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 21.7% (11.4–32.1%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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