Porter Church
Porter Church is a Free Will Baptist church in Wheelersburg, OH 45694. It is one of 23 churches in Wheelersburg, and one of 2 Free Will Baptist congregations in the city.
Wheelersburg, OH, 45694Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School
Phone: (740) 776-2958 · Website: https://porter.church/
Porter 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 Porter 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: 43.1%
- Social Isolation: 36.7%
- Depression: 29.3%
- Unemployment: 9.9% (4.5–15.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.5%
- Poverty Rate: 17.4% (10.0–24.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 15.4%
- Diabetes: 14.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Porter Church
- Slocum Station Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wait's Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Portsmouth, OH
- Waits Church — 0.4 mi away in Portsmouth, OH
- Camp Bennett Christian Baptist Church — 1 mi away in Portsmouth, OH
- Sciotodale Freewill Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away in Portsmouth, OH
- Union Church — 1.9 mi away
- Dogwood Chapel Church of Christ In Christian Union — 2 mi away
- Riverview Church — 2 mi away in Portsmouth, OH
- Junior Furnace Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Portsmouth, OH
- Sacred Mission Church — 2.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Wait's Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Portsmouth, OH
- Sciotodale Freewill Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away in Portsmouth, OH
- Sacred Mission Church — 2.1 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Berean Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away in Portsmouth, OH