Meade Street Baptist Church
Meade Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 50 South Meade Street in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702. It is one of 80 churches in Wilkes-Barre, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
50 South Meade Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18702Meade Street Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Meade Street Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. Nearly a quarter of the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
- Unemployment: 24.9% (13.1–36.7%)
- Obesity: 44.5%
- Poverty Rate: 29.7% (18.4–41.1%)
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Depression: 24.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (4.9–20.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Wilkes-Barre city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 820 residents.
Churches near Meade Street Baptist Church
- Restored Church — 0.1 mi away
- Puritan Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia De RestauraciÓN Unidos En Cristo Wb — 0.2 mi away
- Unity of NEPA — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Piedra Angular — 0.2 mi away
- St. Mark's Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Our Lady of Hope — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Assembly Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Leon de Juda — 0.6 mi away