Jackson St Baptist Church
Jackson St Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1206 Jackson St in Scranton, PA 18504-3366. It is one of 88 churches in Scranton, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
1206 Jackson St, Scranton, PA, 18504-3366Phone: (570) 346-1674 · Website: https://www.jacksonstreetbaptistchurch.org/
Jackson St 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.
Ministries at Jackson St Baptist Church
- Nursery
- Junior Church
- Sunday School
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The community around Jackson St Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. About 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 26.1%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (3.1–14.4%)
- Obesity: 37.6%
- Depression: 25.6%
- Poverty Rate: 20.7% (11.3–30.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Jackson St Baptist Church
- First United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- St Ann's Maronite Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Patrick Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Rey De Reyes — 0.2 mi away
- Salvation Apostolic Temple Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Joseph Melkite Greek Catholic — 0.2 mi away
- United Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Congregational Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Michael's RC Church Traditional Rite — 0.3 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- United Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Open Door Church — 1.3 mi away
- Hickory St Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church — 2 mi away in Taylor, PA
- New Life Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
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