Forest Avenue Baptist Church
Forest Avenue Baptist Church is a church at 2502 Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard in Dallas, TX 75215. It is one of 1,880 churches in Dallas.
Forest Avenue Church, located in the heart of Sherman, Texas, is a vibrant and welcoming community dedicated to glorifying God through worship, discipleship, and service.
2502 Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, Dallas, TX, 75215Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9am · through
- Tuesday 9am
- Wednesday 9am
Forest Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 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 Forest Avenue 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 45.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 29.1% (19.8–38.5%)
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.3%
- Poverty Rate: 16.9% (9.5–24.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Dallas city is served by 1,325 churches — about one congregation for every 1,008 residents.
Churches near Forest Avenue Baptist Church
- Apostolic Pentecostal Assembly — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Family Worship — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of Apostolic Faith — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia De Cristo — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Life Word Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Matthew Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Warren UMC — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Center Dallas — 0.3 mi away
- Olivet Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church of Dallas — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Hope Family Worship — 0.2 mi away
- St Matthew Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Olivet Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church of Dallas — 0.3 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away