True Light Baptist Church
True Light Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Akron, OH 44314. It is one of 431 churches in Akron, and one of 63 Baptist congregations in the city.
Akron, OH, 44314Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9am
True Light Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,342 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 71,418 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 True Light Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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.
- Obesity: 47.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.4%
- Food Insecurity: 33.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.9%
- Diabetes: 19.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Depression: 29.6%
- Poverty Rate: 28.5% (15.5–41.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 9.2% (1.9–16.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near True Light Baptist Church
- True Light Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church On the Boulevard — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Liberty Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kenmore Church of the Nazarene — 0.6 mi away
- Community Friends Church of Urban Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Akron United Wesleyan Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Life Pentecostals of Akron — 0.7 mi away
- Apostolic Christian Church of South Akron — 0.7 mi away
- Church of Deliverance in Jesus Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Pentecostal Fellowship Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- True Light Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Liberty Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- House of Joy Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Kenmore — 1.1 mi away