Forest Avenue Baptist Church
Forest Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 106 West Forest Avenue in Sherman, TX 75090. It is one of 76 churches in Sherman, and one of 20 Baptist congregations in the city.
Forest Avenue Church, located in the heart of Sherman, Texas, is a vibrant and welcoming community dedicated to glorifying God through worship, discipleship, and service.
106 West Forest Avenue, Sherman, TX, 75090Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9am · through
Phone: (903) 892-3506 · Website: https://forestavenuebaptist.com/
Forest Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,376 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,352 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 Forest Avenue Baptist Church
- Children's Sunday School
- Wednesday Night Kids
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The community around Forest Avenue Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 working-age adults live without health insurance. That is two thousand 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.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.3% (14.2–30.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.6%
- Obesity: 37.0%
- Depression: 24.0%
- Diabetes: 13.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Sherman city is served by 46 churches — about one congregation for every 863 residents.
Churches near Forest Avenue Baptist Church
- Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Harvest Time Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Anne's Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Payne Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Greater Harvest North Church — 1.1 mi away
- Sherman DivorceCare — 1.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Stephens Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- East Sherman Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Merriman Hills Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away