Central Baptist Church
Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2515 West Jefferson Street in Louisville, KY 40212. It is one of 838 churches in Louisville, and one of 189 Baptist congregations in the city.
My heartfelt prayer is for people to know the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour and become actively involved in a Bible-believing, Bible-preaching church that cares for them.
Welcome to the internet ministry of the Central Baptist Church! I am delighted that you would visit with us. Praise the Lord that He continues to work and bless in our church! For over 50 years, the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ has been preached from the pulpit at CBC.
2515 West Jefferson Street, Louisville, KY, 40212Central Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,797 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kentucky — 71,417 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.
Ministries at Central Baptist Church
- Mission Support
- Bus Program
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Latest from Central Baptist Church's YouTube channel: 9/16/26 Wednesday Evening Service (all videos).
The community around Central Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 more than 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: 52.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.2%
- Poverty Rate: 36.6% (20.0–53.1%)
- Diabetes: 24.9%
- Unemployment: 12.3% (4.9–19.9%)
- Depression: 27.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Louisville city is served by 321 churches — about one congregation for every 729 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church
- Hill Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- HOPE Ministries and Ministerios Esperanza — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Bethel Star Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Dunamis Christian Faith Church — 0.3 mi away
- Guiding Star Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.3 mi away
- Twenty-Eight Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Phillips Chapel AOH — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church Annex — 0.4 mi away
- Hughlett Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Hill Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Guiding Star Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Twenty-Eight Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church Annex — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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