Gayland Heights Baptist Church
Gayland Heights Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1518 Willoughby Rd in Knoxville, TN 37920-3931. It is one of 684 churches in Knoxville, and one of 128 Baptist congregations in the city.
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Services in American Sign Language
1518 Willoughby Rd, Knoxville, TN, 37920-3931Service times
- Sunday 11am · School
Phone: (865) 577-1196 · Website: https://www.buffatheights.org/
Gayland Heights Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,872 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 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.
Ministries at Gayland Heights Baptist Church
- Preschool Ministry
- Children’s Ministry
- BSM Students
- English Classes
- Children's Church
- Sunday School
- BoomTown Ballers
- BoomBox
- BoomTown Lab
- Wednesday Night Programming
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The community around Gayland Heights Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults here carry depression, and more than 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Depression: 34.9%
- Child Poverty: 37.1% (20.4–53.4%)
- Poverty Rate: 27.0% (18.8–35.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (6.0–17.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Gayland Heights Baptist Church
- Forward Knoxville — 0 mi away
- Vestal Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Matthews Glorious Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mountain View Church — 0.4 mi away
- Montgomery Village Baptist Center — 0.5 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Seventh Day Christian Assembly — 0.6 mi away
- E Avenue House of Prayer — 0.7 mi away
- Vestal United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- City on a Hill Church — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Montgomery Village Baptist Center — 0.5 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Blessed Hope Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Baptist Collegiate Ministry — 1.8 mi away
- South Knoxville Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
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