South Side Baptist Church
South Side Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1425 S 7th St. in Abilene, TX 79602. It is one of 212 churches in Abilene, and one of 37 Baptist congregations in the city.
1425 S 7th St., Abilene, TX, 79602Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8:30am
Phone: (325) 677-8185 · Website: http://www.ssbaptist.org/
South Side Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,496 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 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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Latest from South Side Baptist's YouTube channel: Dr, Blake White - Respectable Sins: Envy (all videos).
The community around South Side 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 the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. 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.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 30.3% (22.6–38.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.9%
- Obesity: 40.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.8%
- Poverty Rate: 22.6% (12.5–32.7%)
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Depression: 24.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Abilene city is served by 114 churches — about one congregation for every 1,038 residents.
Churches near South Side Baptist Church
- International Baptist Church of Abilene — 0.1 mi away
- Adoration Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shining Star Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Abilene Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Fellowship Foursquare Church — 0.3 mi away
- Heavenly Rest Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bar Church — 0.4 mi away
- Freedom Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- International Baptist Church of Abilene — 0.1 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Abilene — 0.6 mi away
- Harvest Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 1 mi away