Calvary Baptist Church
Calvary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 506 Runnels Street in Merkel, TX 79536. It is one of 16 churches in Merkel, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
506 Runnels Street, Merkel, TX, 79536Calvary 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 Calvary Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 37.2%
- Depression: 24.7%
- Child Poverty: 24.4% (13.2–35.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
- Diabetes: 13.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.0% (6.4–15.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Calvary Baptist Church
- Love & Care Industries — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away
- Abundant Life Assembly — 1 mi away
- Our Mother of Mercy Catholic Church — 1.2 mi away
- Salt Branch Cowboy Church — 3.2 mi away
- Country Side Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away
- Hebron Church — 5.7 mi away
- Church of Christ — 6.3 mi away in Trent, TX
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