Bowens Temple

Bowens Temple is a Baptist church in Jacksonville, TX 75766. It is one of 76 churches in Jacksonville, and one of 16 Baptist congregations in the city.

Jacksonville, TX, 75766

Bowens Temple 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 Bowens Temple

It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of 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.

  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.0%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 26.8% (17.8–35.9%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.8%
  • Diabetes: 18.7%
  • Child Poverty: 34.5% (20.3–48.8%)
  • Poverty Rate: 28.4% (18.4–38.4%)
  • Unemployment: 10.0% (2.7–17.6%)
  • Obesity: 39.8%
  • Depression: 23.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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