Rising Star Baptist Church

Rising Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Edinburg, TX 78541. It is one of 80 churches in Edinburg, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.

Edinburg, TX, 78541

Rising Star 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 Rising Star 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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.

  • Obesity: 46.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 42.0% (24.5–59.4%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.7%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 39.0%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.0% (14.9–33.2%)
  • Diabetes: 23.6%
  • Unemployment: 17.6% (4.0–31.3%)
  • Child Poverty: 30.7% (12.7–48.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Edinburg city is served by 10 churches — about one congregation for every 8,828 residents.

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