Greater Rising Star Baptist Church
Greater Rising Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 5513 Como Drive in Fort Worth, TX 76107. It is one of 993 churches in Fort Worth, and one of 289 Baptist congregations in the city.
Pastor Brooks has been the Pastor of the Greater Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church for the past 36 years and married to First Lady Cynthia Brooks for 36 years.
5513 Como Drive, Fort Worth, TX, 76107Service times
Sunday, Saturday 12:30pm; Sunday, Saturday 7pm; Saturday 12:30pm (of th) (as listed)
Phone: (817) 738-5582 · Website: https://grsbc.com/
Greater Rising Star Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,375 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,350 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 Greater Rising Star Baptist Church
- Jr Usher Board
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The community around Greater Rising Star Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. About 1 in 5 working-age adults live without health insurance, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.9% (12.1–25.7%)
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Obesity: 37.6%
- Child Poverty: 24.7% (11.6–39.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 18.8% (10.3–27.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Fort Worth city is served by 664 churches — about one congregation for every 1,300 residents.
Churches near Greater Rising Star Baptist Church
- West Vickery Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Harlem Hills Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bible Way Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Luke Missionary Baptist Church;Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Richmond Avenue Church-Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Como First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Lake Como Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Johnson Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bible Way Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Luke Missionary Baptist Church;Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Como First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away