Galilee Baptist Church
Galilee Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 11517 SE 208th Street in Kent, WA 98031. It is one of 119 churches in Kent, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
We really want to fulfill the Great Commandments and the Great Commission given by Jesus.
Galilee Baptist Church was founded in 1943 in Seattle, Washington by a group of believers with a desire to reach the Northwest with the gospel of Jesus Christ and to maintain a strong biblical testimony in this region.
Serving since 1943
11517 SE 208th Street, Kent, WA, 98031Phone: (253) 854-5828 · Website: https://www.gbcinkent.com/
Galilee Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 626 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Washington — 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.
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The community around Galilee Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and nearly a quarter of the people here were born in another country. 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.
- Unemployment: 7.3% (2.8–11.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Kent city is served by 61 churches — about one congregation for every 2,175 residents.
Churches near Galilee Baptist Church
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — 0.2 mi away
- New Heights Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Washington Burmese Christian Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- Panther Lake Communty Church — 0.6 mi away
- Highlands Community Church Kent Campus — 0.7 mi away
- River of Life Fellowship — 0.7 mi away
- Iglesia Ni Cristo - Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- New Hope Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Evangelical Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away in Renton, WA
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.9 mi away in Renton, WA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Panther Lake Communty Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away in Renton, WA
- Eastridge Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- First Christian Church of Kent — 2 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Kent — 2.4 mi away