Central Baptist Church of Bearden
Central Baptist Church of Bearden is a Southern Baptist church in Knoxville, TN 37919. It is one of 684 churches in Knoxville, and one of 6 Southern Baptist congregations in the city.
This church is an autonomous body, operating through democratic processes under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
Central Bearden exists to help people know Jesus Christ, grow as His disciples, and share God’s love with others.
Serving since 1894
Knoxville, TN, 37919Service times
- Sunday 9am · Bible Study
Phone: (865) 588-0586 · Website: https://centralbearden.org/
Shares a ministry location with Tennessee Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
Central Baptist Church of Bearden is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,872 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 71,419 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 Central Baptist Church of Bearden
- Children's Ministry
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Latest from Central Bearden's YouTube channel: 9/13/26 | First Corinthians - Part 1 (all videos).
The community around Central Baptist Church of Bearden
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 10 the people here were born in another country. 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.
- Depression: 29.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Knoxville city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 868 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church of Bearden
- Tennessee Cooperative Baptist Fellowship — 0 mi away
- Samaritan Ministry — 0.1 mi away
- Sacred Heart Cathedral — 0.5 mi away
- Erin Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Wine Church Knoxville — 0.5 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Ascension — 0.6 mi away
- Church of the Savior — 0.7 mi away
- Messiah Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Bearden United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Knoxville First Church of God — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Samaritan Ministry — 0.1 mi away
- Rocky Hill Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Tabernacle — 2.1 mi away
- Everhart Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Glenwood Park Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
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