Lakewood Baptist Church

Lakewood Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church at 8300 9th Avenue South in Birmingham, AL 35206. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham, and one of 3 Southern Baptist congregations in the city.

8300 9th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL, 35206

Lakewood Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,553 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 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 Lakewood 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

  • Obesity: 46.3%
  • Social Isolation: 41.0%
  • Food Insecurity: 37.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.0%
  • Housing Insecurity: 26.1%
  • Diabetes: 21.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.6%
  • Unemployment: 13.4% (4.1–22.7%)
  • Poverty Rate: 27.4% (13.9–40.8%)
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.8% (6.9–30.7%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 17.7%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Birmingham city is served by 254 churches — about one congregation for every 722 residents.

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