First Saint Mark Baptist Church
First Saint Mark Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Houston, TX 77026. It is one of 2,528 churches in Houston, and one of 718 Baptist congregations in the city.
Houston, TX, 77026First Saint Mark Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,376 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,352 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 First Saint Mark Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly half of the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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.
- Obesity: 50.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 46.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 39.3%
- Poverty Rate: 34.1% (20.9–47.3%)
- Diabetes: 24.1%
- Unemployment: 18.1% (3.2–33.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Saint Mark Baptist Church
- Faith Temple Memorial Church of God and Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Herman Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jesus Tabernacle Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Nazareth Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mercy At Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Direction Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sunrise Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Payne Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Buck Street Memorial Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Perpetual Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Herman Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mercy At Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sunrise Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Perpetual Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away