WELCOME!

Welcome to Lake Avenue Baptist Church, a unique American Baptist Church, that responds to Jesus’ call by practicing Gospel hospitality, Christian mission, and ministries of care, education, inspiration, and reconciliation.  

Four hundred people find a spiritual home here.  We speak English and French, Burmese and Chin, Karen, and Karenni.  Here and there you will also hear Spanish or German.  With African-Americans as well as Africans, and Latino-Americans as well as Euro-Americans, our multicultural banquets, musical offerings, and dances are spectacular!

One of our pastors was born to missionary parents in Bangladesh.  Our current Interim Pastor served as a missionary in the 1980s with the Middle East Council of Churches.  And 145 years ago our congregation began as a mission to our neighborhood.

Come and experience for yourself a multicultural worship of God, love of neighbor, and reconciling outreach to the world of a new millennium.