First Baptist Institutional Church
First Baptist Institutional Church is a Baptist church in Lakeland, FL 33803. It is one of 368 churches in Lakeland, and one of 47 Baptist congregations in the city.
At the forefront of these affiliation is equipping our members to serve in their call for Christ and to be strengthened as His disciples.
First Baptist Institutional Church was founded in 1884 as St. John Baptist Church.
Serving since 1884 · Part of First South Florida Association
Lakeland, FL, 33803First Baptist Institutional Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,719 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Florida — 71,419 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 Institutional Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity. About 1 in 7 working-age adults live without health insurance, and about 1 in 7 the people here were born in another country. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 37.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Lakeland city is served by 95 churches — about one congregation for every 1,199 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Institutional Church
- Cleveland Heights Church — 0.2 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Lakeland — 0.4 mi away
- Edgewood Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Pauls Church — 0.6 mi away
- South Florida Heights Church — 0.7 mi away
- Redemption Lakeland — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Davids Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- New Testament Christian Church - Lakeland, FL — 0.8 mi away
- Covenant Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
- United Methodist Temple — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Lukes Freewill Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Medulla Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Zion Hill Primitive Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away