First Baptist Church of Homeland
First Baptist Church of Homeland is a Baptist church at 248 Church Ave in Homeland, FL 33847.
OUR GOAL FOR THIS CHURCH IS TO LOVE OUR MEMBERS AS JESUS LOVES US, RAISE UP OUR YOUTH IN THE WAY THAT PLEASES GOD, AND BRING AS MANY SINNERS AS WE CAN TO JESUS CHRIST!
Founded in 1886, FBCH is one of the oldest churches in Polk County, Fl. Our church has survived two turn of the centuries, The Great Depression, major hurricanes, and a pandemic but yet we still are standing strong.
248 Church Ave, Homeland, FL, 33847Phone: (863) 712-3345 · Website: https://www.fbcofhomeland.com/
First Baptist Church of Homeland is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,718 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Florida — 71,350 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church of Homeland
- Youth Group
- Car Washes
- Camping and Sports
- Field Trip
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The community around First Baptist Church of Homeland
It takes 3.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.7% (13.3–26.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.2%
- Poverty Rate: 20.2% (11.1–29.2%)
- Diabetes: 15.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
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