Faro de Luz Baptist Church
Faro de Luz Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church at 139-21 Jamaica Ave in New York, NY 11435. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 6 Southern Baptist congregations in the city.
Services in Portuguese
139-21 Jamaica Ave, New York, NY, 11435Phone: (615) 782-8616 · Website: https://www.sbc.net/
Faro de Luz Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,465 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New York — 71,419 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.
Ministries at Faro de Luz Baptist Church
- Food pantry
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The community around Faro de Luz Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is 3,500 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.
- Social Isolation: 41.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.6%
- Food Insecurity: 35.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.3%
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Unemployment: 11.0% (4.2–17.8%)
- Child Poverty: 26.1% (10.7–41.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 18.9% (9.2–28.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.1% (8.3–20.0%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Faro de Luz Baptist Church
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia De Jesucristo Palabra Miel Peniel — 0.1 mi away in Jamaica, NY
- Bible Believers Assembly — 0.1 mi away
- Church City USA — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Andrei Ukrainian Orthodox Parish — 0.1 mi away in Jamaica, NY
- Iglesia Pentecostal Ebenezer — 0.1 mi away
- Mended Vessels Christian Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Maranatha Faith Ministries — 0.2 mi away in Jamaica, NY
- ChristsForgiveness Ministries - NYC — 0.2 mi away
- House of Prayer International — 0.2 mi away
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- Faith Tabernacle Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Christ Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away