West Side Baptist Church
West Side Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1008 Southwest 4th Street in Topeka, KS 66606. It is one of 218 churches in Topeka, and one of 39 Baptist congregations in the city.
We love God and love people by sharing the Good News of God's forgiving, renewing love in word and hands-on actions to improve the lives of our Ward Meade neighbors, community, City of Topeka, County, State, Nation, and World in the name of Jesus Christ.
1008 Southwest 4th Street, Topeka, KS, 66606Service times
Sunday 9am (School weekly); Sunday 9am (SCHOOL); Sunday 10:30am (JULY) (as listed)
Phone: (785) 233-1988 · Website: https://wsbctopeka.org/
West Side Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 661 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kansas — 71,352 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.
Ministries at West Side Baptist Church
- Food Assistance
- Counseling
- Kids' Bible Club
- Nursery Care
Find West Side Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
Watch
Latest from West Side Baptist Church Topeka-Kansas's YouTube channel: Sunday Worship - November 1, 2026 - The Rev. Dr. Ivan E. Greuter Preaching (all videos).
The community around West Side Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 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: 46.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.2%
- Food Insecurity: 29.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.3%
- Social Isolation: 33.6%
- Child Poverty: 33.0% (17.9–48.2%)
- Poverty Rate: 25.5% (15.9–35.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.9%
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.6% (7.5–19.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Topeka city is served by 131 churches — about one congregation for every 923 residents.
Churches near West Side Baptist Church
- Wonderful Works Deliverance Center COGIC — 0.2 mi away
- Harvest Family Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Potwin Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Bridge — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Cathedral — 0.5 mi away
- Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethany Place — 0.5 mi away
- Topeka First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- North Topeka Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away