Word of Life Baptist Church
Word of Life Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 302 North Centre Street in Pottsville, PA 17901. It is one of 23 churches in Pottsville, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1970
302 North Centre Street, Pottsville, PA, 17901Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School
- Wednesday 7pm · Bible Study
Word of Life 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 Word of Life Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
- Obesity: 44.0%
- Depression: 28.3%
- Poverty Rate: 25.4% (13.8–37.1%)
- Unemployment: 8.2% (2.7–14.3%)
- Child Poverty: 29.2% (13.6–44.9%)
- Diabetes: 14.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Pottsville city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 787 residents.
Churches near Word of Life Baptist Church
- BeComingOne Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Salvation Army — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Patrick Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethel AME Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church Parsonage — 1.7 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Saint Clair, PA
- Haven Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Schuylkill Haven, PA
- Souls Harvest Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in New Philadelphia, PA
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