Calvary Baptist Church

Calvary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1616 West 2nd Street in Chester, PA 19013. It is one of 108 churches in Chester, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.

1616 West 2nd Street, Chester, PA, 19013

Website: https://calvarybaptistchester.com/

Calvary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,478 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 71,417 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 Calvary 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. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.

  • Child Poverty: 64.1% (45.1–83.1%)
  • Obesity: 48.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 43.9% (30.4–57.4%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.8%
  • Unemployment: 20.8% (8.8–32.8%)
  • Diabetes: 20.7%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Chester city is served by 86 churches — about one congregation for every 384 residents.

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