Eighth Street Baptist Church
Eighth Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Temple, TX 76501. It is one of 112 churches in Temple, and one of 15 Baptist congregations in the city.
Temple, TX, 76501Website: http://www.eighthstreetbaptist.org/
Eighth Street Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
Ministries at Eighth Street Baptist Church
- Bible Study
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The community around Eighth Street Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 50.7%
- Child Poverty: 41.4% (21.9–60.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.8%
- Poverty Rate: 30.3% (18.6–42.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.7% (13.2–30.2%)
- Diabetes: 21.5%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (1.4–15.6%)
- Depression: 25.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 8 census tracts near this church.
Temple city is served by 53 churches — about one congregation for every 1,319 residents.
Churches near Eighth Street Baptist Church
- Corinth Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Temple Word Of Faith Church — 0.1 mi away
- Wayman Chapel AME Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Impact Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Methodist Church Temple — 0.3 mi away
- El Divino Salvador Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Free Church of God in Christ in Jesus Name — 0.4 mi away
- Our Lady of Guadalupe Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Zion Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away