Westwood Baptist Church
Westwood Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1809 Bassett Rd in Palestine, TX 75803-8461. It is one of 124 churches in Palestine, and one of 19 Baptist congregations in the city.
1809 Bassett Rd, Palestine, TX, 75803-8461Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · school begins
Phone: (903) 723-8297 · Website: https://www.wbcpalestine.org/
Westwood 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 Westwood Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.7%
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Child Poverty: 35.6% (17.8–53.3%)
- Poverty Rate: 25.3% (15.9–34.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.9% (13.3–24.6%)
- Diabetes: 17.4%
- Depression: 24.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Westwood Baptist Church
- Westwood United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Cornerstone Worship Center Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Palestine Full Gospel Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bassett Road Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Court Drive Church — 1.3 mi away
- Cornerstone Worship Center Outreach Center — 1.5 mi away
- Sheridan Terrace Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Pilgrim Hill Church — 1.7 mi away
- Salt Works Road Church of Christ — 1.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bassett Road Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Sheridan Terrace Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away