Kilgore Baptist Church
Kilgore Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Kilgore, TX 75662. It is one of 74 churches in Kilgore, and one of 13 Baptist congregations in the city.
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Kilgore, TX, 75662Shares a ministry location with Xciting KBC.
Kilgore 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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The community around Kilgore 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 a quarter of the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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): 24.4% (17.7–31.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
- Poverty Rate: 27.0% (17.2–36.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.9%
- Obesity: 38.7%
- Child Poverty: 26.7% (15.7–38.0%)
- Depression: 25.0%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.0–11.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Kilgore city is served by 24 churches — about one congregation for every 164 residents.
Churches near Kilgore Baptist Church
- Xciting KBC — 0 mi away
- Kilgore Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pursuit — 0.2 mi away
- Christ the King Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pilgrim Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christian Campus Center — 0.5 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- West View Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- St. Luke's United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Kilgore Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Highland Park Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away