Forest Park Baptist Church
Forest Park Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 520 Old Morgantown Rd in Bowling Green, KY 42101-2869. It is one of 176 churches in Bowling Green, and one of 21 Baptist congregations in the city.
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Forest Park Baptist Church was established in 1950 in the growing Forest Park neighborhood of Bowling Green as a church plant of First Baptist Church Bowling Green.
Serving since 1950
520 Old Morgantown Rd, Bowling Green, KY, 42101-2869Phone: +12708433419 · Website: https://www.forestparkbaptist.org/
Forest Park Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,781 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kentucky — 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 Forest Park Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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.
- Child Poverty: 65.2%
- Poverty Rate: 54.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.6%
- Depression: 32.4%
- Obesity: 41.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (6.9–18.6%)
- Unemployment: 7.3% (3.9–10.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Forest Park Baptist Church
- Romans Road Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Madison Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia La Hermosa — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Assembly Church — 0.6 mi away
- Christian Student Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- Bowling Green Assembly Of God — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Campus Center — 0.8 mi away
- La Luz Del Mundo — 0.8 mi away
- LLDM Bowling Green, KY — 0.8 mi away
- WKU Wesley Foundation — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Madison Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Seventh Street Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Next Level Church — 1.3 mi away
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