Gospel Light Baptist Church
Gospel Light Baptist Church is a church at 3531 Avalon St in Philadelphia, PA 19114-1501. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia.
3531 Avalon St, Philadelphia, PA, 19114-1501Phone: +12156379677 · Website: https://glbcphilly.org/
Gospel Light 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 Gospel Light 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. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.
- Depression: 24.4%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (2.4–10.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Gospel Light Baptist Church
- Christ the King Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ the King CCD — 0.2 mi away
- Northeast Philadelphia Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Good Shepherd United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Good Shepherd Christian Day — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Michael Mission Center — 1 mi away
- St Katherine of Siena — 1.1 mi away
- St. Martha's Church — 1.2 mi away
- Our Lady of Calvary Church — 1.2 mi away
- All Saints Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Lifeway Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- First Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church of Holmesburg — 2.7 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
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