John Street Baptist Church
John Street Baptist Church is a church in Elkins, WV 26241. It is one of 36 churches in Elkins.
Elkins, WV, 26241John Street Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 771 congregations of the Baptist family gather across West Virginia — 71,418 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 John Street Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults here carry depression, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 45.1%
- Depression: 33.3%
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
- Unemployment: 9.1% (3.5–14.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.4%
- Poverty Rate: 16.1% (10.9–21.4%)
- Diabetes: 14.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Elkins city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 259 residents.
Churches near John Street Baptist Church
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Woodford Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Refinery Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Brendan Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Davis Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Centerbranch Church Elkins — 0.4 mi away
- Otterbein United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Landmark Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Tygarts Valley Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away in Beverly, WV
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 7.8 mi away in Belington, WV
- First Baptist Church of Belington — 8.5 mi away in Belington, WV
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