New Light Baptist Church
New Light Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 518 North 6th Street in Abilene, TX 79601. It is one of 212 churches in Abilene, and one of 37 Baptist congregations in the city.
Services in Spanish and Vietnamese and Portuguese
518 North 6th Street, Abilene, TX, 79601Website: http://newlightabilene.com/
New Light Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,496 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 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.
Find New Light Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around New Light Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 the people here live without health insurance. About 1 in 5 working-age adults live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 27.1% (18.0–36.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.8%
- Obesity: 37.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.9%
- Poverty Rate: 21.7% (12.9–30.4%)
- Diabetes: 14.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Abilene city is served by 114 churches — about one congregation for every 1,038 residents.
Churches near New Light Baptist Church
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- United Methodist Church - Plum Street — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch CME Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Francis Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Highland Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- The Well Abilene — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Abilene — 0.7 mi away
- Ash Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away