Parsons Baptist Church
Parsons Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 224 Austin Avenue in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18705. It is one of 82 churches in Wilkes-Barre, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
224 Austin Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18705Parsons 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 Parsons Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.
- Obesity: 40.8%
- Child Poverty: 26.7% (8.0–46.5%)
- Depression: 24.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.0%
- Poverty Rate: 19.4% (10.3–28.4%)
- Diabetes: 13.3%
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 Parsons Baptist Church
- Parsons Primitive Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Benedict Parish — 0.1 mi away
- St. Dominic's — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- Ebenezer International Harvest Assembly Of God — 0.6 mi away
- Wilkes Barre Spanish SDA Church — 0.6 mi away
- Holy Trinity Orthodox Church — 0.7 mi away
- Exaltation of The Holy Cross Hall — 0.8 mi away
- Miner Congregational United Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away in Plains, PA
- Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church — 0.9 mi away in Plains, PA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Valley Cities Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in Hudson, PA
- Wesley Chapel Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Meade Street Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church — 2.6 mi away
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