Faro de Luz Baptist Church

Faro de Luz Baptist Church is a church at 139-21 Jamaica Ave in New York, NY 11435. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York.

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139-21 Jamaica Ave, New York, NY, 11435

Phone: +17185580463 · Website: https://www.sbc.net/

Faro de Luz Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.

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.

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