The Word Church
The Word Church is a Baptist church at 1989 N 63rd St in Philadelphia, PA 19151-2693. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 298 Baptist congregations in the city.
Is to teach the inerrant Word of God in a simplistic way, so that understandings take root and people’s hearts are changed.
1989 N 63rd St, Philadelphia, PA, 19151-2693Phone: (267) 405-3225 · Website: http://wordchurchphila.org/
Shares a ministry location with Jesus Holy Temple.
The Word Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,478 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 71,419 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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Latest from The Word Church of Philadelphia's YouTube channel: 9/13/262026 Rev. Kevin Chapman "Overcoming the Spirit of Offense" (all videos).
The community around The Word Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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: 12.1% (2.5–21.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 26.0% (14.1–38.0%)
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
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