God 1St Missionary Baptist Church
God 1St Missionary Baptist Church is a church at 2740 Gulfway Dr in Port Arthur, TX 77640-4627. It is one of 137 churches in Port Arthur.
2740 Gulfway Dr, Port Arthur, TX, 77640-4627Website: www.godfirstchurch.org
God 1St Missionary 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 God 1St Missionary Baptist Church
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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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: 52.3% (33.2–71.3%)
- Obesity: 49.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.0%
- Poverty Rate: 30.4% (16.7–44.2%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 28.5% (19.9–37.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.9%
- Diabetes: 23.5%
- Unemployment: 17.5% (4.3–31.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near God 1St Missionary Baptist Church
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- True Vine Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Allison Chapell Church of God In Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Endtime Deliverance Holiness — 0.3 mi away
- Thomas Blvd Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Temple New Life Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Saint George Greek Orthodox Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christian Life Tabernacle — 0.6 mi away
- New Life Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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- Shilo Missionary Baptist Church of Port Arthur TX — 0.8 mi away