The Living Word Baptist Church
The Living Word Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Palatka, FL 32177. It is one of 101 churches in Palatka, and one of 28 Baptist congregations in the city.
Palatka, FL, 32177The Living Word 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 The Living Word Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 34.6% (24.5–44.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.6% (14.1–27.2%)
- Diabetes: 20.1%
- Unemployment: 12.4% (4.0–21.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.6%
- Obesity: 37.7%
- Child Poverty: 22.2% (5.2–39.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Palatka city is served by 47 churches — about one congregation for every 79 residents.
Churches near The Living Word Baptist Church
- St. John the Divine, CEC — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Joseph Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Life Church — 0.2 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Heights — 0.5 mi away
- First Assembly Church — 0.5 mi away
- Palatka First Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Abundant Life Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Palatka Baptist Temple — 0.5 mi away
- Lemon Heights Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Joseph Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Palatka Baptist Temple — 0.5 mi away
- Lemon Heights Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Johns Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away