New Light Baptist Church
New Light 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, 77640New Light 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 Light Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of adults live with diabetes. 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: 53.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.6%
- Diabetes: 28.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.1%
- Child Poverty: 39.1% (20.3–57.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 29.3% (18.5–40.2%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.3% (11.4–27.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Port Arthur city is served by 75 churches — about one congregation for every 741 residents.
Churches near New Light Baptist Church
- Saint Marys Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Solid Rock Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ — 0.4 mi away
- East Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Salem Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Zion Temple Church of God and Christ — 0.6 mi away
- First Christian Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Seventh Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Spirit Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Solid Rock Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Christian Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Seventh Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Spirit Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away