Central Baptist Church
Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Dothan, AL 36301. It is one of 167 churches in Dothan, and one of 40 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our church exists to bring the lost to salvation through Jesus Christ by faith alone.
Central Baptist Church (CBC) was founded in 1965 as an independent Baptist, pastor-led congregation.
Serving since 1965
Dothan, AL, 36301Central Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,551 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 71,417 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 Central Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 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: 63.4%
- Obesity: 50.4%
- Food Insecurity: 44.1%
- Social Isolation: 42.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.3%
- Poverty Rate: 40.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.8%
- Diabetes: 24.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.9%
- Unemployment: 10.0% (5.5–14.4%)
- Depression: 25.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Dothan city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 912 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church
- Kingdom Calling Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace and Truth International Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- St James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Power in the Word Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Poplar Springs Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- South Lena Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Gospel Light House Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bread Of Life Multicultural Center — 0.5 mi away
- Vision Ministries — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- South Lena Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ridgecrest Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 1 mi away