Fourth Avenue Baptist Church

Fourth Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Louisville, KY 40203. It is one of 838 churches in Louisville, and one of 189 Baptist congregations in the city.

Louisville, KY, 40203

Shares a ministry location with Louisville Church of Christ.

Fourth Avenue 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.

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The community around Fourth Avenue 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. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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.

  • Poverty Rate: 33.7% (22.9–44.5%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
  • Diabetes: 19.1%
  • Obesity: 42.6%
  • Depression: 26.7%
  • Unemployment: 7.3% (1.1–13.6%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Louisville city is served by 321 churches — about one congregation for every 729 residents.

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