West Side Baptist Church
West Side Baptist Church is a American Baptist church in Wichita, KS 67213. It is one of 601 churches in Wichita, and one of 2 American Baptist congregations in the city.
Wichita, KS, 67213Website: https://wsbcwichita.org/
Shares a ministry location with District Church.
West Side Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 663 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kansas — 71,417 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 West Side Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 32.2% (19.1–45.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 25.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.5% (13.9–31.2%)
- Obesity: 43.1%
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
- Depression: 24.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 West Side Baptist Church
- District Church — 0 mi away
- Calvary Bible Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Mary Orthodox Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gospel Life Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Paul's Lutheran Church Wichita, KS — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Joseph Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away in Witchita, KS
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Covenant United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away in Witchita, KS
- Discover Church — 0.5 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Discover Church — 0.5 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Testament Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Meridian Avenue Baptist Church — 1 mi away