New Life Baptist Church
New Life Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 840 Harrison Avenue in Scranton, PA 18510. It is one of 88 churches in Scranton.
840 Harrison Avenue, Scranton, PA, 18510New Life Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around New Life Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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.
- Child Poverty: 30.4% (13.4–47.6%)
- Depression: 23.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.5%
- Poverty Rate: 20.5% (13.0–28.0%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (6.4–21.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Scranton city is served by 33 churches — about one congregation for every 2,306 residents.
Churches near New Life Baptist Church
- Dunmore United Methodist — 0.1 mi away
- Immaculate Conception — 0.2 mi away
- St Peters Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Rocco's Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Manse;Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Covenant Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of Bible Understanding — 0.7 mi away
- Madonna Della Strada Chapel — 0.7 mi away
- St. Nicholas Orthodox Greek Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away