Meade Street Baptist Church
Meade Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 50 South Meade Street in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702. It is one of 82 churches in Wilkes-Barre, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
50 South Meade Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18702Meade Street 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 Meade Street Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. Nearly a quarter of 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: 30.1%
- Unemployment: 24.9% (13.1–36.7%)
- Obesity: 44.5%
- Poverty Rate: 29.7% (18.4–41.1%)
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Depression: 24.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (4.9–20.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Wilkes-Barre city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 820 residents.
Churches near Meade Street Baptist Church
- Restored Church — 0.1 mi away
- Puritan Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia De RestauraciÓN Unidos En Cristo Wb — 0.2 mi away
- Unity of NEPA — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Piedra Angular — 0.2 mi away
- St. Mark's Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Our Lady of Hope — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Assembly Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Leon de Juda — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mt. Zion Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Wesley Chapel Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Berean Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
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