Saint Mark Baptist Church
Saint Mark Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Avon Park, FL 33825. It is one of 58 churches in Avon Park, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Avon Park, FL, 33825Saint Mark Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,713 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Florida — 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.
Find Saint Mark Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Saint Mark Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. Nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.9%
- Diabetes: 20.2%
- Obesity: 44.4%
- Poverty Rate: 27.2% (18.6–35.8%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.4% (11.1–23.6%)
- Unemployment: 11.9% (4.5–19.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Avon Park city is served by 27 churches — about one congregation for every 372 residents.
Churches near Saint Mark Baptist Church
- Apostolic Church of Jesus — 0.1 mi away
- Lighthouse Pentacostal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Temple Holiness Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ of Nazareth — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt Zion Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Avon Park Fl — 0.2 mi away
- Mt. Zion C&E Church — 0.2 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Progressive Church of God by Faith — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Pentacostal Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church Avon Park — 0.8 mi away
- Florida Ave Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Bethany Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Life Church AP — 1.3 mi away