First Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church is a church at 601 S Texas Ave in Mercedes, TX 78570-3525. It is one of 23 churches in Mercedes.
601 S Texas Ave, Mercedes, TX, 78570-3525Phone: +19565654615 · Website: https://mercedeschamber.com/our-community/churches
First Presbyterian Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story. 643 congregations of the Presbyterian family gather across Texas — 11,342 across the United States on The Church Map.
Presbyterians gave American Christianity much of its backbone: seminaries, catechisms, and shared government by elders rather than by one man, a habit that shaped the country's civic life as much as its churches. They have been among the most persistent builders of colleges, hospitals, and mission agencies this nation has.
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The community around First Presbyterian 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: 49.1% (29.9–68.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 37.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.1%
- Poverty Rate: 31.2% (19.1–43.3%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.9% (18.5–31.3%)
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Obesity: 44.7%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (2.0–12.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Presbyterian Church
- Living Stone Church — 0 mi away
- New Anointing Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mercedes Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesla Del Nazareno — 0.2 mi away
- Lifeline Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mercedes Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
- Mission Luterana Emanuel — 0.4 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Rosa de Saron RGV — 0.4 mi away
- Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
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