Consolation Baptist Church
Consolation Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2500 Wharton St in Philadelphia, PA 19146. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 298 Baptist congregations in the city.
Bishop Gaines’ mission was to affect peace and harmony within the community.
Bishop Alden A. Gaines is the Pastor and Founder of Consolation Baptist Church; he accepted the calling of the ministry in 1965.
2500 Wharton St, Philadelphia, PA, 19146Phone: (215) 465-3470 · Website: http://www.consolationhgbc.blogspot.com/
Consolation 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 — 71,420 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.
Ministries at Consolation Baptist Church
- Anti-Drug Coalition
- Women's Ministry
- Women’s Ministry
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The community around Consolation 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 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Unemployment: 8.4% (4.1–12.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.
Churches near Consolation Baptist Church
- Church of Pentecost — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Redeemer — 0.1 mi away
- Jesus living bread Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Temple Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Gethsemane Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Miracle Temple of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Autism Rec — 0.2 mi away
- New Bethany Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Marks Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Word of Life Church Ministry — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Church of the Redeemer — 0.1 mi away
- New Temple Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Gethsemane Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Bethany Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Hill Memorial Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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