Wayne Avenue Baptist Church
Wayne Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lubbock, TX 79414. It is one of 355 churches in Lubbock, and one of 68 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our desire is to help people walk closer to the Lord Jesus Christ, and to share the Good News of salvation with everyone.
Wayne Avenue Baptist Church has served Lubbock, TX and the surrounding communities since 1963. We are an independent, fundamental, Bible-believing Baptist church that uses the King James Bible to preach and teach from. We have something for every member of the family.
Lubbock, TX, 79414Website: http://www.wayneavenuebaptist.org/
Wayne Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,418 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 Wayne Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. About 1 in 5 working-age adults live without health insurance, and about 1 in 7 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: 24.3% (14.4–34.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.9% (8.9–23.0%)
- Obesity: 38.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.3%
- Depression: 23.3%
- Diabetes: 14.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lubbock city is served by 216 churches — about one congregation for every 1,183 residents.
Churches near Wayne Avenue Baptist Church
- West Texas District Council — 0.1 mi away
- Bacon Heights Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lubbock Korean Vision Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cornerstone Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- Westmont Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- St Matthew — 0.6 mi away
- Covenant Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- St. George Coptic Orthodox Church — 0.7 mi away
- South Plains Bible Chapel — 0.7 mi away
- Quaker Ave Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bacon Heights Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Quaker Ave Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Westmoreland Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- College Heights Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away