Mount Moriah Baptist Church
Mount Moriah 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, 77640Mount Moriah 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.
Find Mount Moriah Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Mount Moriah Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 52.9%
- Child Poverty: 49.6% (31.1–68.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.9%
- Poverty Rate: 33.8% (22.8–44.9%)
- Diabetes: 27.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.2% (11.1–27.2%)
- Unemployment: 6.7% (0.8–13.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Port Arthur city is served by 75 churches — about one congregation for every 741 residents.
Churches near Mount Moriah Baptist Church
- Saint Joseph House of Prayer Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Eastern Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Temple Church of God and Christ — 0.2 mi away
- East Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Friendship Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Barnett Church of God in Christ — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Joseph House of Prayer Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Eastern Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away