Rock Island Baptist Church
Rock Island 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, 77640Rock Island 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 Rock Island Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 65.3% (47.6–83.1%)
- Obesity: 52.5%
- Poverty Rate: 45.7% (32.9–58.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.9%
- Diabetes: 24.7%
- Unemployment: 14.2% (2.8–25.8%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.9% (10.5–29.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 Rock Island Baptist Church
- Mount Sinai Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Israel Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- White Rose Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Luke Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Carter Chapel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sacred Heart-Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holiness Pentecostal Sanctified Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Sinai Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Luke Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Sixth Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away