Wallace Avenue Baptist Church
Wallace Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Shawnee, OK 74801. It is one of 92 churches in Shawnee, and one of 20 Baptist congregations in the city.
Shawnee, OK, 74801Shares a ministry location with Shawnee Pres.
Wallace Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,598 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Oklahoma — 71,418 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 Wallace Avenue Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 40.7%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Food Insecurity: 22.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.2% (11.5–20.9%)
- Depression: 27.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Poverty Rate: 19.7% (14.0–25.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Shawnee city is served by 30 churches — about one congregation for every 958 residents.
Churches near Wallace Avenue Baptist Church
- Shawnee Pres — 0 mi away
- Saint Benedict Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Living Love Christian Center — 0.4 mi away
- Glad Tidings Assembly of God — 0.4 mi away
- Central Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Spirit Rain Christian Center — 0.6 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.6 mi away
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Frontline Church Shawnee — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Heritage First Church — 0.9 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Pioneer Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Union Missionary Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away