Lamplighter Baptist Church

Lamplighter Baptist Church is a church at 5959 9th Ave in Port Arthur, TX 77642-6204. It is one of 137 churches in Port Arthur.

5959 9th Ave, Port Arthur, TX, 77642-6204

Phone: +14099831661 · Website: https://www.sbc.net/

Lamplighter 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 Lamplighter Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, 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 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: 37.2% (26.4–48.0%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.1% (14.6–27.6%)
  • Obesity: 41.4%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.9%
  • Diabetes: 16.9%
  • Unemployment: 6.6% (1.3–11.9%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

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