First Sixth Street Baptist Church
First Sixth Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 548 Abe Lincoln Ave in Port Arthur, TX 77640-4907. It is one of 137 churches in Port Arthur, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
First Sixth Street Baptist Church stands as a beacon of faith in Port Arthur, Texas.
548 Abe Lincoln Ave, Port Arthur, TX, 77640-4907Phone: +14099854348 · Website: https://firstsixthstreet.wixsite.com/firstsixthstreetbc
First Sixth 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 First Sixth Street Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 62.0% (44.1–79.9%)
- Obesity: 52.8%
- Poverty Rate: 44.3% (31.8–56.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.7%
- Diabetes: 25.4%
- Unemployment: 13.0% (2.5–23.9%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.7% (10.6–28.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Sixth Street Baptist Church
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- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holiness Pentecostal Sanctified Church — 0.2 mi away
- Carter Chapel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sacred Heart-Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Luke Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Israel Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Love Center Church of God In Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Rock Island Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Saint Luke Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rock Island Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Sinai Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away