First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lake City, FL 32055. It is one of 144 churches in Lake City, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving the Lord and Our Community
Lake City, FL, 32055Service times
- Sunday 10:30am · Worship
- Wednesday 5:30pm · Service
- Thursday 9pm–2pm
First 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.
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The community around First 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 the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 35.7% (22.9–48.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Obesity: 44.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.9%
- Unemployment: 9.7% (3.2–16.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Lake City city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 89 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Faith Temple Harvest of Life Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Pisgah African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
- Shekinah Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- church on the way — 0.4 mi away
- Olivet Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Christian Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- 1st Haitian American Baptist Church Of Lake City — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Shekinah Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Olivet Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- 1st Haitian American Baptist Church Of Lake City — 0.5 mi away
- Parkview Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away