First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church at 87 State Highway 371 in Thoreau, NM 87323. It is one of 10 churches in Thoreau.
87 State Highway 371, Thoreau, NM, 87323First 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 First Baptist Church
It takes 4.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Child Poverty: 47.5% (32.1–62.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 47.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.8%
- Diabetes: 19.6%
- Unemployment: 13.1% (5.3–21.3%)
- Obesity: 41.9%
- Social Isolation: 39.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.2%
- Poverty Rate: 29.4% (21.1–37.7%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.9% (10.7–23.1%)
- Depression: 25.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Thoreau Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Red Cliffs Ward — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Bonaventure Mission — 0.4 mi away
- The Potter's House — 0.4 mi away
- Dayspring Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Crosslands Mission — 4 mi away
- San Antonio Mission — 5 mi away
- Coolidge Navajo Church — 8.2 mi away
- Smith Lake Church of God — 9 mi away in Smith Lake, NM
- Bethesda Navajo Mission — 9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Dayspring Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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