First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 43 South Lake Street in North East, PA 16428. It is one of 16 churches in North East.

43 South Lake Street, North East, PA, 16428

First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,509 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 71,872 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 First Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.

  • Unemployment: 8.5% (3.1–13.9%)
  • Obesity: 37.9%
  • Depression: 25.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.5%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

North East borough is served by 9 churches — about one congregation for every 454 residents.

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