Rose of Sharon Baptist Church
Rose of Sharon Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Waco, TX 76704. It is one of 284 churches in Waco, and one of 64 Baptist congregations in the city.
Waco, TX, 76704Website: http://roseofsharonbaptistchurch4.placeweb.site
Rose of Sharon 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 Rose of Sharon Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half 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.
- Child Poverty: 75.9%
- Obesity: 48.4%
- Poverty Rate: 46.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.9%
- Diabetes: 24.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.4% (14.6–30.3%)
- Unemployment: 13.4% (4.3–22.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Waco city is served by 124 churches — about one congregation for every 1,084 residents.
Churches near Rose of Sharon Baptist Church
- Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Macedonia B.C. — 0.2 mi away
- Open Door COGIC — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Harvest Assembly — 0.3 mi away
- Adams Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wayside Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Living Word COGIC — 0.4 mi away
- Pentecostal Cathedral of Faith Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Second Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Mt Olive Baptist — 0.6 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away