First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 15 W Ridge St in Lansford, PA 18232. It is one of 7 churches in Lansford.
15 W Ridge St, Lansford, PA, 18232Phone: (570) 645-2212 · Website: http://www.gcclansford.org
Shares a ministry location with Grace Community Church.
First 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 First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 5 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Unemployment: 21.2% (13.5–28.9%)
- Child Poverty: 35.6% (17.3–53.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 24.0% (15.3–32.7%)
- Obesity: 37.7%
- Depression: 26.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Grace Community Church — 0 mi away
- St. John's Slovak Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Katharine Drexel Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away in Summit Hill, PA
- St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away in Summit Hill, PA
- Hope of Christ Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away in Summit Hill, PA
- United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away in Summit Hill, PA
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Nesquehoning, PA
- Recovery Church Tamaqua — 4.8 mi away in Tamaqua, PA
- Trinity Baptist Church — 7.8 mi away in Weatherly, PA
- Grace Baptist Church — 8.8 mi away in Hazleton, PA
- St John the Baptist Church — 10.4 mi away in Hazleton, PA
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