First Baptist Church of Pittston
First Baptist Church of Pittston is a Baptist church at 8 Water St in Pittston, PA 18640-1800. It is one of 10 churches in Pittston.
The mission of First Baptist Church Pittston is the same mission Jesus gave his followers: Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
The vision of First Baptist Church Pittston is create a community of authentic believers and to witness a city transformed by the life changing reality of the gospel, as people come to know Jesus as their lord and savior.
8 Water St, Pittston, PA, 18640-1800Phone: +15706540283 · Website: https://fbcpittston.org/
First Baptist Church of Pittston 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 First Baptist Church of Pittston
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 40.2%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Child Poverty: 22.7% (6.4–39.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.1%
- Poverty Rate: 19.0% (11.3–26.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Pittston
- United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Michael's Byzantine Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away in West Pittston, PA
- St Joseph Marello Parish Activities — 0.5 mi away
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church Bazaar — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away in West Pittston, PA
- Christian Missionary Alliance — 0.7 mi away in West Pittston, PA
- Second Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
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- Parsons Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Wilkes-Barre, PA
- United Baptist Church of Taylor — 6 mi away in Taylor, PA
- Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church — 6.5 mi away in Taylor, PA
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