Central Church of the Nazarene
Central Church of the Nazarene is a Nazarene church in Port Arthur, TX 77642. It is one of 137 churches in Port Arthur.
Port Arthur, TX, 77642Central Church of the Nazarene is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 187 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Texas — 4,365 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around Central Church of the Nazarene
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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here 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: 45.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 40.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 33.8%
- Diabetes: 22.0%
- Poverty Rate: 23.6% (11.0–36.2%)
- Child Poverty: 28.8% (11.3–46.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Port Arthur city is served by 75 churches — about one congregation for every 741 residents.
Churches near Central Church of the Nazarene
- Giáo Xứ Nữ Vương Việt Nam;Queen of Vietnam Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Temple Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Spanish United Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jireh World Church and Outreach Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- North End Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint George Greek Orthodox Church — 0.7 mi away
- Lakeview United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint James Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Church of the Nazarene — 16.6 mi away in Vidor, TX
- Bethlehem Church of the Nazarene — 16.9 mi away in Orange, TX