Baptist Temple
Baptist Temple is a Baptist church in Parkersburg, WV 26101. It is one of 120 churches in Parkersburg, and one of 16 Baptist congregations in the city.
Parkersburg, WV, 26101Shares a ministry location with The Journey on Park Avenue.
Baptist Temple 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 Baptist Temple
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults here carry depression. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 47.3%
- Depression: 34.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.3%
- Social Isolation: 33.9%
- Poverty Rate: 24.3% (15.6–32.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.4%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.1%
- Unemployment: 8.1% (3.0–13.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Parkersburg city is served by 62 churches — about one congregation for every 506 residents.
Churches near Baptist Temple
- The Journey on Park Avenue — 0 mi away
- Parkersburg Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Seventh Street United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of His Presence - Parkersburg — 0.3 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Liberty Street Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- North Parkersburg Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
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