Saint John Baptist Church
Saint John Baptist Church is a church in Port Arthur, TX 77640. It is one of 137 churches in Port Arthur.
Port Arthur, TX, 77640Saint John 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 Saint John 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: 63.6% (45.8–81.5%)
- Obesity: 52.7%
- Poverty Rate: 45.0% (32.3–57.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.3%
- Diabetes: 25.1%
- Unemployment: 13.6% (2.7–24.8%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.8% (10.5–29.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.3%
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 Saint John Baptist Church
- Carter Chapel Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Holiness Pentecostal Sanctified Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sacred Heart-Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Sixth Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Israel Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Luke Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rock Island Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Sinai Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Sixth Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Luke Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rock Island Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Sinai Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away