First Baptist Church of Lake Wales
First Baptist Church of Lake Wales is a Baptist church in Lake Wales, FL 33853. It is one of 62 churches in Lake Wales, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Lake Wales, FL, 33853Shares a ministry location with Iglesia Bautista Conexion Hispana de Lake Wales.
First Baptist Church of Lake Wales 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 of Lake Wales
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 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: 45.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.9%
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Poverty Rate: 22.6% (11.0–34.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.1%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (3.5–13.9%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (5.6–21.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lake Wales city is served by 3 churches — about one congregation for every 2,935 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Lake Wales
- Iglesia Bautista Conexion Hispana de Lake Wales — 0 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Good Shepherd — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- Up At The Cross — 0.2 mi away
- Spanish Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church of Lake Wales — 0.3 mi away
- Alpha & Omega Church — 0.4 mi away
- Higher Praise Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Central Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 4 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Waverly — 5.5 mi away
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