Central Avenue Baptist Church

Central Avenue Baptist Church is a church at 113 W Central Ave in Lake Wales, FL 33853-4099. It is one of 62 churches in Lake Wales.

113 W Central Ave, Lake Wales, FL, 33853-4099

Phone: +18636764518 · Website: http://www.fbclw.com

Central Avenue 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 Central Avenue Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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.

  • Obesity: 48.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.1%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.8%
  • Diabetes: 19.8%
  • Unemployment: 14.3% (7.0–21.6%)
  • Poverty Rate: 28.6% (15.7–41.6%)
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.6% (6.9–20.3%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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