Wait's Missionary Baptist Church
Wait's Missionary Baptist Church is a church at 1889 State Route 140 in Portsmouth, OH 45662-8648. It is one of 81 churches in Portsmouth.
1889 State Route 140, Portsmouth, OH, 45662-8648Phone: (740) 776-0094 · Website: https://www.mapquest.com/.../waits-missionary-baptist-chr-5992953
Shares a ministry location with Waits Church.
Wait's Missionary 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 Wait's Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand 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: 43.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.8%
- Depression: 29.5%
- Unemployment: 9.7% (4.4–15.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.8%
- Poverty Rate: 18.2% (10.6–25.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 15.7%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Wait's Missionary Baptist Church
- Waits Church — 0 mi away
- Slocum Station Church — 0.4 mi away in Wheelersburg, OH
- Porter Church — 0.4 mi away in Wheelersburg, OH
- Camp Bennett Christian Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Sciotodale Freewill Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Riverview Church — 1.6 mi away
- Junior Furnace Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Dogwood Chapel Church of Christ In Christian Union — 1.7 mi away in Wheelersburg, OH
- Sacred Mission Church — 1.8 mi away in Wheelersburg, OH
- Cornerstone Church of the Nazarene — 2 mi away in Wheelersburg, OH
More Baptist churches nearby
- Porter Church — 0.4 mi away in Wheelersburg, OH
- Sciotodale Freewill Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Sacred Mission Church — 1.8 mi away in Wheelersburg, OH
- Faith Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Wheelersburg, OH
- Berean Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away