Columbus Avenue Baptist Church
Columbus Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1300 Columbus Avenue in Waco, TX 76701. It is one of 284 churches in Waco, and one of 64 Baptist congregations in the city.
1300 Columbus Avenue, Waco, TX, 76701Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8:15am · - -
Columbus 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 — 71,420 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 Columbus Avenue Baptist Church
- Missions
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The community around Columbus Avenue Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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.
- Child Poverty: 63.8% (44.1–83.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 40.2% (29.9–50.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.9% (15.2–28.7%)
- Obesity: 42.5%
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Unemployment: 7.0% (1.6–12.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Waco city is served by 124 churches — about one congregation for every 1,084 residents.
Churches near Columbus Avenue Baptist Church
- Saint Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church — 0 mi away
- Columbus Avenue Baptist Church theCenter — 0.1 mi away
- The Olive Branch Christian Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Columbus Avenue Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Austin Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mighty Wind Worship Center — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church Waco — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Church Waco — 0.3 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Tree of Life NDC — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Columbus Avenue Baptist Church theCenter — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church N.B.C. — 0.5 mi away
- Hip Hop Hope Waco — 0.7 mi away
- Calvary Church — 0.7 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Bautista — 0.7 mi away