ML King Boulevard Church of Christ
ML King Boulevard Church of Christ is a church at 1908 Martin Luther King Blvd in Wharton, TX 77488-4732. It is one of 44 churches in Wharton.
1908 Martin Luther King Blvd, Wharton, TX, 77488-4732Phone: +19795322442 · Website: http://www.church-of-christ.org
ML King Boulevard Church of Christ is part of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,313 congregations of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family gather across Texas — 9,607 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Stone-Campbell churches asked American Christians to put down their party names and be simply Christians, and they meant it enough to give up their own. Their plea for one table, and their weekly return to it, is one of the few genuinely American gifts to the church's understanding of itself.
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The community around ML King Boulevard Church of Christ
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 25.7% (15.2–36.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.2%
- Diabetes: 19.5%
- Obesity: 45.0%
- Poverty Rate: 24.8% (13.0–36.7%)
- Unemployment: 9.1% (1.6–16.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near ML King Boulevard Church of Christ
- St James Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Word Church Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Roy Memorial Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Templo Bethel del Cladic — 1 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Wharton — 1.2 mi away
- Caney Creek Church — 1.2 mi away
- New Hope Community Church — 1.2 mi away
More Restorationist churches nearby
- Abell Street Church of Christ — 1.6 mi away
- El Campo Church of Christ — 12.3 mi away in El Campo, TX
- Church of Christ — 24.6 mi away in Bay City, TX