Florida Avenue Baptist Church
Florida Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Port Arthur, TX 77640. It is one of 137 churches in Port Arthur, and one of 32 Baptist congregations in the city.
Port Arthur, TX, 77640Florida Avenue 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 Florida Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 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 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 48.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.8% (15.4–34.1%)
- Diabetes: 23.2%
- Poverty Rate: 26.8% (12.2–41.3%)
- Unemployment: 8.1% (0.6–16.0%)
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 Florida Avenue Baptist Church
- Port Arthur Apostolic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Gateway Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church Vietamese Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Temple New Life Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Sabbath Rest Nondenominational Ministry — 0.4 mi away
- Thomas Blvd Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Allison Chapell Church of God In Christ — 0.5 mi away
- New Life Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint George Greek Orthodox Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Spirit Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Gateway Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Spirit Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Seventh Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Community Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away