Greater Calvary Baptist Church
Greater Calvary Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 1616 E Walnut St in Waco, TX 76704-3048. It is one of 284 churches in Waco, and one of 3 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
A Christ-centered, family-focused, full gospel church dedicated to salvation, education, and liberation.
Serving since 1984
1616 E Walnut St, Waco, TX, 76704-3048Service times
Saturday · July 31 · 5:00 PM (as listed)
Phone: (254) 235-9268 · Website: https://www.greatercalvary.org/
Greater Calvary 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 Calvary 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. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 38.2% (23.3–53.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
- Depression: 27.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.7% (8.9–22.5%)
- Obesity: 36.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater Calvary Baptist Church
- Spring Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Tabernacle Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Pleasant Olive Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- St Luke AME Church — 1.1 mi away
- Union Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Elliston Chapel — 1.2 mi away
- St James United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Toliver Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 1.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Spring Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pleasant Olive Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Union Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Toliver Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away