New Jerusalem Baptist Church
New Jerusalem 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, 77640Website: http://www.newjerusalemmbc.org
New Jerusalem 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 New Jerusalem Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 32.9% (14.7–51.1%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.1% (10.6–25.6%)
- Unemployment: 10.0% (0.6–21.2%)
- Obesity: 39.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
- Diabetes: 14.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Port Arthur city is served by 75 churches — about one congregation for every 741 residents.
Churches near New Jerusalem Baptist Church
- El Vista Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- El Vista Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mark Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 1.1 mi away
- Calvary — 1.3 mi away
- Church of Christ Port Acres — 1.4 mi away
- Lakeside Park Church of Christ — 1.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Mark Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Calvary — 1.3 mi away
- Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away