Highland Baptist Church
Highland Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 600 Thomas Street in Denton, TX 76201. It is one of 157 churches in Denton, and one of 22 Baptist congregations in the city.
600 Thomas Street, Denton, TX, 76201Phone: (940) 387-1745 · Website: http://www.highlanddenton.org/
Highland Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,377 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,417 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 Highland Baptist Church
- Support for First Refuge Ministries
- Support for Local Nonprofits
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The community around Highland Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 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 below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of the people here 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.
- Poverty Rate: 32.9% (24.0–41.8%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.6% (15.4–29.7%)
- Unemployment: 8.0% (3.3–12.7%)
- Obesity: 36.1%
- Depression: 26.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Denton city is served by 73 churches — about one congregation for every 1,782 residents.
Churches near Highland Baptist Church
- Church In Denton — 0.1 mi away
- St. David of Wales Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Maximus Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- First Denton — 0.7 mi away
- Christian Campus Community — 0.7 mi away
- Denton Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
- Denton Chinese Church — 0.8 mi away
- The Village Church Denton — 0.9 mi away
- Denton TX LDS Institute — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Denton — 0.7 mi away
- The Village Church Denton — 0.9 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- North Point Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away