East Eighth Baptist Church
East Eighth Baptist Church is a church at 801 SE Wear Ave in Topeka, KS 66607-1771. It is one of 253 churches in Topeka.
801 SE Wear Ave, Topeka, KS, 66607-1771Phone: +17853574703 · Website: https://giv.li/w08ed2
East Eighth Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 677 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kansas — 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 East Eighth Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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.
- Obesity: 47.9%
- Child Poverty: 41.2% (23.2–59.1%)
- Poverty Rate: 35.5% (23.7–47.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 34.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.4%
- Social Isolation: 35.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.6%
- Diabetes: 17.0%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (2.2–15.3%)
- Depression: 25.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (8.1–20.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near East Eighth Baptist Church
- El Shaddai Ministries Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Victory City Church — 0.3 mi away
- Open Arms Outreach Ministries COGIC — 0.4 mi away
- Overcoming Fellowship Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- True Holiness Family Church — 0.5 mi away
- VIDA Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- True Vine Missionary Baptist — 0.6 mi away
- First Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- True Light Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- East Branch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away