Highland Baptist Church
Highland Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 503 East Alabama Avenue in Sweetwater, TX 79556. It is one of 37 churches in Sweetwater, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
503 East Alabama Avenue, Sweetwater, TX, 79556Highland 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.
Find Highland Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Highland Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. Nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 27.6%
- Diabetes: 19.5%
- Obesity: 42.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.9% (12.0–25.7%)
- Depression: 23.1%
- Unemployment: 7.8% (2.9–12.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Sweetwater city is served by 25 churches — about one congregation for every 410 residents.
Churches near Highland Baptist Church
- Heritage of Faith Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Evangelical Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Lamar Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Lighthouse Assembly of God — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.6 mi away
- Calvario Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bautista Primera Iglesia Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Assembly of God — 0.6 mi away
- Avenue B church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Immaculate Heart of Mary Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lamar Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvario Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Zion Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Broadway Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1 mi away