Greater Ideal Baptist Church
Greater Ideal Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 411 S Tyler St in Midland, TX 79701-7564. It is one of 201 churches in Midland, and one of 41 Baptist congregations in the city.
Through the five-fold ministry the church extends beyond its doors to reach others for Christ.
411 S Tyler St, Midland, TX, 79701-7564Phone: (432) 682-8169 · Website: https://www.greaterideal.org/
Greater Ideal 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 Greater Ideal Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 58.5% (40.7–76.3%)
- Obesity: 46.1%
- Poverty Rate: 39.0% (26.6–51.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 34.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.8% (13.1–28.4%)
- Diabetes: 18.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater Ideal Baptist Church
- Greater St Luke AME Church — 0.2 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lee Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Common Unity Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hollowell Community United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Apostolica De Guerra — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt Rose Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Latin Free Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Saint John Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater New Hope Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away