Villegas Street Baptist Church
Villegas Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Pharr, TX 78577. It is one of 54 churches in Pharr, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Pharr, TX, 78577Villegas Street 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 Villegas Street Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is two thousand 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.
- Obesity: 47.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 44.1%
- Child Poverty: 42.5% (23.6–61.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 38.4%
- Poverty Rate: 35.3% (22.4–48.3%)
- Diabetes: 23.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Pharr city is served by 10 churches — about one congregation for every 7,151 residents.
Churches near Villegas Street Baptist Church
- Iglesia Buenas Nuevas — 0.1 mi away
- Alianza Cristiana y Misionera de Pharr — 0.2 mi away
- St Anne's Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Apostolic Assembly Church — 0.4 mi away
- Unity Rio Grande Valley — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia de San Juan del Valle — 0.5 mi away
- Pharr Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.6 mi away
- St Margaret Mary Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Parsonage La Trinidad Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Templo Monte De Sion Internacional — 1.2 mi away in San Juan, TX
- Anchor Bible Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- St John the Baptist Catholic Church — 1.2 mi away in San Juan, TX
- Grace Bible Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away