Eighth Street Baptist Church
Eighth Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 705 Skyline Road in Grand Prairie, TX 75051. It is one of 280 churches in Grand Prairie, and one of 23 Baptist congregations in the city.
705 Skyline Road, Grand Prairie, TX, 75051Phone: (972) 262-4297 · Website: http://www.eighthstreetbaptist.org
Eighth Street 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 Eighth Street Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of working-age adults live without health insurance, and more than a third of the people here live 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.
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 40.4%
- Poverty Rate: 39.4% (25.1–53.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 30.2% (21.5–38.8%)
- Unemployment: 16.9% (5.2–28.7%)
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Diabetes: 17.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Grand Prairie city is served by 172 churches — about one congregation for every 1,192 residents.
Churches near Eighth Street Baptist Church
- Prince of Peace Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Redención - Redemption Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Inglewood — 0.4 mi away
- Casa Amistad Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Glory Revival Hub — 0.4 mi away
- First United Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mid-Cities Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Tabernacle Pentecostal Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- South Temple Church — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia Familiar Adonai — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church Grand Prairie — 0.7 mi away
- Indian Hills Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Grand Prairie Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Fairview Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Marshall Drive Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
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