Portway Baptist Church
Portway Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Brownsville, TX 78521. It is one of 121 churches in Brownsville, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Brownsville, TX, 78521Portway 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.
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The community around Portway Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is two thousand 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.
- Child Poverty: 54.6% (37.0–72.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 45.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 35.1% (25.5–44.8%)
- Poverty Rate: 34.8% (22.2–47.4%)
- Diabetes: 21.9%
- Obesity: 44.9%
- Unemployment: 10.1% (4.2–16.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Brownsville city is served by 25 churches — about one congregation for every 7,187 residents.
Churches near Portway Baptist Church
- St. Eugene de Mazenod Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Iglesia Menonita Del Cordero — 0.7 mi away
- Iglesia-Beraka — 0.9 mi away
- Iglesia Vida Brownsville — 1.1 mi away
- Galvan Revivals Church — 1.1 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Jerico — 1.1 mi away
- Ministerio Cielos De Gloria — 1.4 mi away
- Templo Betesda A.G -House of Mercy — 1.5 mi away
- Restauracion Y Poder Church — 1.6 mi away
- Brownsville Missionary Baptist Church — 2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Brownsville Missionary Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Saint James Missionary Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Logos Baptist Church — 3 mi away
- First Mexican Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away