Slocum First Baptist Church
Slocum First Baptist Church is a church at 5875 E TX-294 in Elkhart, TX 75839-3137. It is one of 18 churches in Elkhart.
5875 E TX-294, Elkhart, TX, 75839-3137Phone: +19034782354 · Website: https://slocumfirst.com/
Slocum First 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 Slocum First Baptist Church
It takes 4.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Child Poverty: 31.0% (13.6–48.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.1%
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Obesity: 38.2%
- Depression: 25.5%
- Poverty Rate: 19.5% (11.5–27.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Slocum First Baptist Church
- Lakeside Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Saint James Church — 1.6 mi away
- Union Hope Church — 3 mi away
- Salmon Church — 3.5 mi away
- Providence Church — 3.7 mi away
- Days Chapel — 3.7 mi away in Palestine, TX
- Sand Flat Church — 3.9 mi away in Grapeland, TX
- Sand Springs Church — 4.8 mi away
- Ferguson Church — 5.5 mi away in Palestine, TX
- Evergreen Church — 5.8 mi away in Grapeland, TX
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lakeside Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Saint James Church — 1.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 7.3 mi away
- Grapeland Baptist Church — 9.1 mi away in Grapeland, TX
- First Baptist Church — 9.8 mi away in Grapeland, TX