First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 520 Nelson Avenue in Port Bolivar, TX 77650. It is one of 5 churches in Port Bolivar.
520 Nelson Avenue, Port Bolivar, TX, 77650First 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 First Baptist Church
It takes 3.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.9%
- Poverty Rate: 21.3% (13.1–29.4%)
- Diabetes: 14.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (7.0–18.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Saint Luke Church — 4.4 mi away in Galveston, TX
- Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Galveston County — 4.5 mi away in Galveston, TX
- Coastal Community Church — 4.6 mi away in Galveston, TX
- University Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in Galveston, TX
- Christ Chapel — 4.8 mi away in Galveston, TX
- Church of the Living God Galveston Downtown — 4.8 mi away in Galveston, TX
- Unida Church — 4.8 mi away in Galveston, TX
- Galveston Bible Church — 4.9 mi away in Galveston, TX
- First Latin Church — 4.9 mi away in Galveston, TX
- First Presbyterian Church — 5 mi away in Galveston, TX
More Baptist churches nearby
- Coastal Community Church — 4.6 mi away in Galveston, TX
- University Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in Galveston, TX
- First Church — 5.1 mi away in Galveston, TX
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away in Galveston, TX
- Coastal Community Church — 5.5 mi away in Galveston, TX
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