Parkview Baptist Church
Parkview Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3430 South Meridian Avenue in Wichita, KS 67217. It is one of 601 churches in Wichita, and one of 92 Baptist congregations in the city.
3430 South Meridian Avenue, Wichita, KS, 67217Parkview Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 663 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kansas — 71,420 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 Parkview Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 41.1%
- Social Isolation: 35.7%
- Child Poverty: 33.6% (14.5–52.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
- Depression: 24.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
- Poverty Rate: 18.3% (8.0–28.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
- Diabetes: 13.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (2.5–10.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Wichita city is served by 333 churches — about one congregation for every 1,152 residents.
Churches near Parkview Baptist Church
- West Side Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Southwest Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Life Center — 0.4 mi away
- Westside Freewill Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Eitz Chayim Wichita — 0.8 mi away
- Restoration Church Wichita — 0.8 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mosaic Life Church — 0.9 mi away
- Ministerio Internacional Renovados en Cristo — 0.9 mi away
- Calvary's Rock — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Southwest Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Mercy Hill Church — 1.4 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Witchita, KS
- Glenville Bible Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away