Meridian Avenue Baptist Church
Meridian Avenue Baptist Church is a American Baptist church in Wichita, KS 67203. It is one of 601 churches in Wichita, and one of 2 American Baptist congregations in the city.
Wichita, KS, 67203Meridian Avenue 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 Meridian Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 42.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
- Poverty Rate: 25.1% (14.7–35.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 24.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.3% (9.3–21.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Depression: 26.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
- Unemployment: 7.6% (2.1–13.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Wichita city is served by 333 churches — about one congregation for every 1,152 residents.
Churches near Meridian Avenue Baptist Church
- New Testament Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Movement Church — 0.3 mi away
- Oaks Fellowship Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Getsemani — 0.4 mi away
- West Douglas Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Allerton Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Crossroads Friends Church — 0.5 mi away
- Evangelical Friends Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Life Covenant Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Covenant United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away in Witchita, KS
More Baptist churches nearby
- Iglesia Bautista Getsemani — 0.4 mi away
- Allerton Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- West Side Baptist Church — 1 mi away