Peniel Baptist Church

Peniel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2515 Jefferson Street in Philadelphia, PA 19121. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 298 Baptist congregations in the city.

2515 Jefferson Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19121

Website: http://www.penielbaptistchurch.org/

Peniel 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 — 71,417 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 Peniel Baptist Church

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. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,300 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.

  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
  • Obesity: 36.5%
  • Depression: 23.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 20.5% (10.4–30.6%)
  • Diabetes: 14.9%
  • Unemployment: 6.7% (2.6–11.2%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.

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