Bay Area Baptist Church
Bay Area Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lake Wales, FL 33898. It is one of 38 churches in Lake Wales, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
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Carrollwood Baptist Church began as a congregation in June of 1994 through the merger of two former congregations, The First Baptist Church of Carrollwood and Bay Area Baptist Church, led by Rev. Tom Rives.
Serving since 1994
Lake Wales, FL, 33898Service times
- Sunday 10:30am · Morning Worship
- Wednesday 6pm · evenings beginning
Bay Area Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,718 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Florida — 71,352 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 Bay Area Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third 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.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.4% (6.5–26.4%)
- Obesity: 38.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bay Area Baptist Church
- Beulah Church — 1.7 mi away
- Wayside Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Cornerstone True Fellowship — 3.6 mi away
- Fuego Church — 3.9 mi away
- Christ's Church On The Move — 3.9 mi away
- Lake Wales Alliance Church — 3.9 mi away
- Church of Christ — 3.9 mi away
- Christ's Church on the Move — 4 mi away
- Grace Life Family Church — 4.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 5.1 mi away in Babson Park, FL
More Baptist churches nearby
- Wayside Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Lake Wales — 5.7 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 6.2 mi away
- New Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — 6.3 mi away
- Lake Pierce Baptist Church — 6.9 mi away
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