Country Side Baptist Church
Country Side Baptist Church is a church at 248 FM 1235 in Merkel, TX 79536. It is one of 10 churches in Merkel.
248 FM 1235, Merkel, TX, 79536Phone: (325) 928-5387 · Website: http://www.countrysidebaptist.org
Country Side Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Country Side Baptist Church
It takes 4.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 36.7%
- Depression: 24.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (7.5–20.8%)
- Diabetes: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Country Side Baptist Church
- Salt Branch Cowboy Church — 3.1 mi away
- Hope Church — 3.8 mi away
- Abundant Life Assembly — 4.4 mi away
- Compere Church — 4.9 mi away
- Love & Care Industries — 4.9 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away
- Zion Chapel — 4.9 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 5.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 5.7 mi away