First Missionary Baptist Church
First Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Morton, TX 79346. It is one of 12 churches in Morton, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Morton, TX, 79346First Missionary 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 Missionary Baptist Church
It takes 13.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance, 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: 32.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 28.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.5%
- Diabetes: 18.2%
- Obesity: 40.8%
- Child Poverty: 29.6% (19.1–40.1%)
- Depression: 23.0%
- Poverty Rate: 21.9% (15.0–28.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Missionary Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Evans Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Assembly Morton — 0.3 mi away
- First Assembly of God — 0.3 mi away
- Morton Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ Eastside — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Ann Church — 0.5 mi away
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