First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Mercedes, TX 78570. It is one of 23 churches in Mercedes, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Mercedes, TX, 78570First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,496 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,872 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 Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of working-age adults live without health insurance, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 48.1% (28.9–67.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 37.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.0%
- Poverty Rate: 30.7% (18.6–42.9%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.5% (18.2–30.8%)
- Diabetes: 19.2%
- Obesity: 44.7%
- Unemployment: 7.4% (2.0–12.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Mercedes city is served by 4 churches — about one congregation for every 4,017 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Mercedes Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lifeline Church — 0.1 mi away
- Living Stone Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesla Del Nazareno — 0.2 mi away
- New Anointing Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Mission Luterana Emanuel — 0.3 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Rosa de Saron RGV — 0.3 mi away
- Mercedes Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Mexican Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Weslaco — 4.7 mi away in Weslaco, TX
- Mount Sinai Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Weslaco, TX
- Iglesia Bautista Calvario de Weslaco — 5 mi away in Weslaco, TX
- First Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away in La Feria, TX