The Center (Valley Baptist Missions Education Center)
The Center (Valley Baptist Missions Education Center) is a Baptist church at 3700 E Harrison Ave in Harlingen, TX 78550-2505. It is one of 93 churches in Harlingen, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Valley Baptist Missions Education Center is a warm and friendly fellowship filled with people who love God and one another.
3700 E Harrison Ave, Harlingen, TX, 78550-2505Phone: (956) 367-2632 · Website: https://www.vbmec.org/
The Center (Valley Baptist Missions Education Center) is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,418 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.
Ministries at The Center (Valley Baptist Missions Education Center)
- Help for Homes
- Food Distribution
- Pulpit Ministry
- Winter Texans
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The community around The Center (Valley Baptist Missions Education Center)
Within about a mile of this church, nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. About 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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 Adults 18-64: 24.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.3% (13.2–25.4%)
- Obesity: 36.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Poverty Rate: 22.0% (14.1–29.8%)
- Diabetes: 14.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near The Center (Valley Baptist Missions Education Center)
- Harlingen Bilble Church — 0.1 mi away
- Parkwood Evangelical Free Church — 0.8 mi away
- Harlingen Bible Church — 0.9 mi away
- LifeLine Heart Of Worship — 1.1 mi away
- New Life In Christ Church — 1.1 mi away
- Treasure Hills Presbyterian Church — 1.2 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 1.2 mi away
- Jesus Is The Only Way Ministries — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
- Dr. Austin R. Church, Dds — 1.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Victory Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Bautista — 2.6 mi away
- Corinth Missionary Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away