First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 48 South River Street in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. It is one of 80 churches in Wilkes-Barre, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
48 South River Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18701First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 adults here carry depression. About 1 in 7 the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Depression: 26.1%
- Poverty Rate: 16.8% (9.3–24.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Wilkes-Barre city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 820 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church on the Square — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Nueva Vida En Cristo — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary's Church of the Immaculate Conception — 0.3 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Leon de Juda — 0.4 mi away
- St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Wyoming Valley — 0.5 mi away
- Our Lady Of Fatima Grotto — 0.5 mi away