Central Baptist Church
Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1600 Huntsville Road in Florence, AL 35630. It is one of 211 churches in Florence, and one of 50 Baptist congregations in the city.
We are committed to the faithful teaching of God's Word, to loving one another well, and to serving our community with the love of Christ.
Central Baptist Church is a welcoming community of believers located in Florence, Alabama.
Serving since 1900
1600 Huntsville Road, Florence, AL, 35630Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
- Sunday 11am
- Wednesday 6:30pm
Central 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 a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. That is 2,200 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.
- Food Insecurity: 30.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.7% (13.0–30.4%)
- Obesity: 41.5%
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.2%
- Poverty Rate: 24.5% (13.7–35.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.4%
- Depression: 27.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
- Diabetes: 14.3%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.0–11.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Florence city is served by 74 churches — about one congregation for every 481 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church
- Salvation Army Church — 0.1 mi away
- Singing River Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- East Florence Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- New Vision United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Old Brick Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Oakdale Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Birth Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Oakdale Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Well Church Florence — 0.6 mi away