Fourth Avenue Baptist Church
Fourth Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Port Arthur, TX 77642. It is one of 137 churches in Port Arthur, and one of 32 Baptist congregations in the city.
Port Arthur, TX, 77642Fourth 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 Fourth Avenue Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 53.0% (34.4–71.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 37.1% (26.3–47.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.4% (14.8–27.9%)
- Obesity: 41.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.9%
- Diabetes: 16.9%
- Unemployment: 6.7% (1.3–12.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Port Arthur city is served by 75 churches — about one congregation for every 741 residents.
Churches near Fourth Avenue Baptist Church
- Lamplighter Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Ecclesia — 0.1 mi away
- Graceway — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church & Shrine — 0.3 mi away
- Ridgewood Church — 1 mi away
- The Temple — 1.1 mi away
- Church of the Light of the World — 1.1 mi away
- Church of Christ - Park Central — 1.1 mi away
- Encounter Church — 1.2 mi away in Groves, TX
More Baptist churches nearby
- Ridgewood Church — 1 mi away
- Procter Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Memorial Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Bellaire Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away