St. Mark's Lutheran Church
St. Mark's Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 56 South Hancock Street in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702. It is one of 80 churches in Wilkes-Barre, and one of 4 Lutheran congregations in the city.
56 South Hancock Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18702Shares a ministry location with Iglesia Cristiana Piedra Angular.
St. Mark's Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around St. Mark's Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, nearly a quarter of the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 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.
- Unemployment: 24.7% (13.2–36.2%)
- Obesity: 44.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
- Poverty Rate: 29.2% (17.9–40.4%)
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Depression: 24.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (5.0–20.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Wilkes-Barre city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 820 residents.
Churches near St. Mark's Lutheran Church
- Iglesia Cristiana Piedra Angular — 0 mi away
- Puritan Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Assembly Church — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of Hope — 0.2 mi away
- Unity of NEPA — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia De RestauraciÓN Unidos En Cristo Wb — 0.2 mi away
- Meade Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Restored Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Leon de Juda — 0.3 mi away