Open Door Mission True Light
Open Door Mission True Light is a Pentecostal church at 401 North 52nd Street in Philadelphia, PA 19139. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 46 Pentecostal congregations in the city.
We exist to CELEBRATE God as we bring souls to Christ, building a COMMUNITY of believers who are CARING for one another, and striving towards COMPLETION as we fulfill our COMMISSION in this world.
The Open Door Mission True Light Church started as a Sunday School in the inner city of North Philadelphia in 1966 under the leadership of the late Rev. James L. Ballard, Sr.
401 North 52nd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19139Service times
- Wednesday 7pm
Phone: (215) 477-4412
Open Door Mission True Light is part of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family of churches in The American Church Story. 597 congregations of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family gather across Pennsylvania — 16,682 across the United States on The Church Map.
Pentecostalism began in a Los Angeles livery stable with Black and white believers worshiping together while segregation was the law, and it has become the fastest-growing Christian movement in history. Its recovery of the Spirit's gifts, and the songs it has written, have crossed into nearly every other tradition on this map.
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The community around Open Door Mission True Light
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third 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.
- Poverty Rate: 42.3% (27.9–56.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
- Diabetes: 19.7%
- Unemployment: 17.8% (7.1–28.6%)
- Obesity: 43.9%
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 Open Door Mission True Light
- New Beginnings Sanctuary of Praise Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Emmanuels House of Worship — 0.1 mi away
- New Life in Christ Mission — 0.1 mi away
- True Holiness Temple — 0.1 mi away
- Embracing Ministrie — 0.2 mi away
- Killingsworth Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Philips Church — 0.2 mi away
- United Gaspel Crusade's Conference Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Church of Latter Rain — 0.2 mi away
- St. Philip's Lutheran Parish Hall — 0.2 mi away
More Pentecostal churches nearby
- New Beginnings Sanctuary of Praise Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Solid Rock Fellowship Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Open Door Mission True Light — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Peter Fire Baptized Holiness Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt. Zion Pentecostal Faith Church — 0.5 mi away
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