First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Nesquehoning, PA 18240. It is one of 6 churches in Nesquehoning.
Nesquehoning, PA, 18240First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,509 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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.
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The community around First Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. More than a third of adults live with obesity, 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 the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Unemployment: 11.2% (4.0–18.4%)
- Obesity: 36.0%
- Depression: 24.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.4%
- Diabetes: 13.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Nesquehoning borough is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 556 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Saint Mary Greek Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Meed's United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. John the Baptist Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 3.4 mi away in Jim Thorpe, PA
- Ebenezer Evangelical Congregational Church — 3.6 mi away in Jim Thorpe, PA
- St. John's Lutheran Church — 3.7 mi away in Jim Thorpe, PA
- United Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away in Summit Hill, PA
- St. Mark's Church — 3.9 mi away in Jim Thorpe, PA
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Lansford, PA
- Trinity Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away in Weatherly, PA
- Long Run Church of the Brethren — 6.3 mi away in Lehighton, PA
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 9.4 mi away in Lehighton, PA
- Grace Baptist Church — 9.8 mi away in Hazleton, PA
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