Liberty Baptist Church
Liberty Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 501 East 3rd Street in Van Wert, OH 45891. It is one of 39 churches in Van Wert, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Liberty Baptist Church was founded on June 4, 1982, by Rev. Kieth Stoller as a home mission of Trinity Baptist Church of Findlay, OH, and supported by Bible Baptist Church of Ft. Wayne, IN.
Serving since 1982
501 East 3rd Street, Van Wert, OH, 45891Phone: +1 419 238 2273 · Website: https://www.lbcvw.org/
Liberty Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,344 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 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.
Ministries at Liberty Baptist Church
- Addiction Outreach
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The community around Liberty Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 40.0%
- Social Isolation: 36.4%
- Depression: 28.0%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (0.4–17.4%)
- Child Poverty: 27.6% (13.4–41.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.3%
- Poverty Rate: 21.0% (13.1–28.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.7%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Van Wert city is served by 19 churches — about one congregation for every 587 residents.
Churches near Liberty Baptist Church
- Trinity Friends Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Soulbridge Vineyard Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mark's Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Van Wert Christian Center — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Global Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- First Friends Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Faith Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 13.2 mi away in Mendon, OH
- Marion Church — 15.6 mi away in Spencerville, OH
- Friends Church Spencerville — 16.3 mi away in Spencerville, OH