First Baptist Church Mission Odessa
First Baptist Church Mission Odessa is a Baptist church in Odessa, TX 79761. It is one of 210 churches in Odessa, and one of 30 Baptist congregations in the city.
Odessa, TX, 79761First Baptist Church Mission Odessa 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 Mission Odessa
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of working-age adults live without health insurance, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 35.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.6% (13.3–31.9%)
- Obesity: 43.1%
- Diabetes: 17.2%
- Child Poverty: 27.5% (10.8–44.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 19.4% (9.6–29.2%)
- Unemployment: 6.3% (0.8–11.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Odessa city is served by 84 churches — about one congregation for every 1,157 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church Mission Odessa
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Saint John Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Freedom Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- 6th and Jackson Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Parks Memorial Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Carter Chapel Church — 0.5 mi away
- Tree Of Life — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia Episcopal San Miguel Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Saint John Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Freedom Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away