Canaan First Baptist Church
Canaan First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Houston, TX 77026. It is one of 3,337 churches in Houston, and one of 724 Baptist congregations in the city.
Houston, TX, 77026Website: http://www.canaan5117.org/
Canaan First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,377 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,417 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 Canaan First 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 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Obesity: 48.4%
- Child Poverty: 44.3% (27.6–61.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.2%
- Poverty Rate: 32.4% (18.6–46.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 27.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 27.5% (17.2–37.9%)
- Diabetes: 22.2%
- Unemployment: 10.7% (3.2–18.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Canaan First Baptist Church
- First Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Garden Grove Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church Harmony Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- The Light of Victory Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kashmere Garden Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Pauls Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Living Word Church and International Ministries — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church Harmony Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- New Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Pauls Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away