Paradise Baptist Church
Paradise 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, 77640Paradise 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 Paradise Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Paradise Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.1% (13.4–28.9%)
- Obesity: 40.3%
- Child Poverty: 36.7% (21.0–52.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.1%
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Unemployment: 8.3% (1.5–15.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 19.7% (11.6–27.7%)
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 Paradise Baptist Church
- Guiding Star Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Port Acres United Pentecostal Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Therese the Little Flower of Jesus Catholic Church — 1.3 mi away
- Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- New World Harvest Church — 1.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Port Acres — 1.5 mi away
- Church of Christ Port Acres — 1.6 mi away
- United Methodist Church - Saint Johns — 1.6 mi away
- Calvary — 1.8 mi away
- Memorial Church of Christ — 2.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Guiding Star Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Port Acres — 1.5 mi away
- Calvary — 1.8 mi away
- Saint Mark Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away