New Elam Baptist Church
New Elam Baptist Church is a church at 509 W Brenken St in Hearne, TX 77859-3044. It is one of 22 churches in Hearne.
509 W Brenken St, Hearne, TX, 77859-3044Phone: (979) 279-2326 · Website: https://www.corporationwiki.com/p/hjbr4/new-elam-baptist-church-of...
New Elam Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,419 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 New Elam Baptist Church
It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 40.4% (23.4–57.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.1%
- Diabetes: 19.2%
- Unemployment: 13.2% (6.1–20.3%)
- Obesity: 43.8%
- Poverty Rate: 27.1% (18.3–35.9%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.2% (9.7–22.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Elam Baptist Church
- Victory Church of Brazos Valley — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Philip's Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Crossroads Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel AME Church — 0.6 mi away
- Independent MBC — 0.7 mi away
- First Church of God in Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Little Flock Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 8.7 mi away in Calvert, TX
- Gause Baptist Church — 9.6 mi away in Gause, TX
- New Hope Baptist Church — 10.2 mi away
- Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 11.5 mi away in Bryan, TX