Union Baptist Church
Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Refugio, TX 78377. It is one of 12 churches in Refugio, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Refugio, TX, 78377Union 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 Union Baptist Church
It takes 7.7 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 about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. 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: 30.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.4%
- Diabetes: 18.7%
- Obesity: 40.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (10.5–19.6%)
- Child Poverty: 28.7% (16.1–41.4%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.1% (14.0–28.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Union Baptist Church
- St James Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Luke Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Ascension — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- First Temple Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- Our Lady of Refuge Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Presbyterian Church — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Luke Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away in Woodsboro, TX
- First Baptist Church — 14.9 mi away in Bayside, TX