Paradise Baptist Church
Paradise Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 4401 E 17th St N in Wichita, KS 67208-2242. It is one of 601 churches in Wichita, and one of 3 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
Paradise ministers by meeting people’s needs with love and humility on Christ’s behalf, whether the people are believers or non-believers.
Paradise desires to meet the needs of our congregation. We accomplish this through our ministries.
4401 E 17th St N, Wichita, KS, 67208-2242Service times
- Sunday 9am · School
Phone: +13166848313 · Website: https://www.paradisembcwichitaks.org/
Paradise 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.
Ministries at Paradise Baptist Church
- Prison Ministry
- Women's Ministry
- Youth Ministry
- Education Ministry
- Mental Health, Family & Marriage Counseling
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The community around Paradise 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 more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Obesity: 45.4%
- Child Poverty: 43.3% (26.8–59.8%)
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Poverty Rate: 35.6% (23.7–47.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 33.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.1%
- Unemployment: 12.3% (7.0–17.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.9% (9.8–23.9%)
- Depression: 23.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Paradise Baptist Church
- Newman Center — 0.4 mi away
- Christ the King Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. Paul University Parish at Wichita State — 0.4 mi away
- Fairmount Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Dellrose United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- University Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- River Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Memorial Chapel — 0.6 mi away
- Grace Brethren Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Liberty Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- University Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Bible Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Progressive Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- St Andrew's Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away