Saint John Baptist Church
Saint John Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 509 East 26th Street in Erie, PA 16504. It is one of 205 churches in Erie, and one of 28 Baptist congregations in the city.
509 East 26th Street, Erie, PA, 16504Website: http://www.sjberie.org
Saint John 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 — 71,418 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 Saint John Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,400 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.
- Unemployment: 12.3% (2.3–22.3%)
- Obesity: 43.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.8%
- Poverty Rate: 22.7% (11.8–33.6%)
- Depression: 24.0%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Erie city is served by 103 churches — about one congregation for every 920 residents.
Churches near Saint John Baptist Church
- Bethel Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Calvary Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Open Door Full Gospel Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Trinity Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Cornerstone Liberty Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Zion Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- True Holiness Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Peter & Paul Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Calvary Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- House Of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away