Zion Baptist Church
Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 8th St in Parkersburg, WV 26101. It is one of 121 churches in Parkersburg, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
The mission of Zion Baptist Church is to share the love and message of Jesus Christ, nurture faith across generations, and serve our community through worship, fellowship, compassion, and outreach.
8th St, Parkersburg, WV, 26101Phone: +13044220091 · Website: https://zionbaptistpkb.org/
Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 774 congregations of the Baptist family gather across West Virginia — 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 Zion Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 48.9%
- Child Poverty: 40.3% (26.1–55.1%)
- Depression: 35.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.0%
- Poverty Rate: 31.4% (22.2–40.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 27.6%
- Diabetes: 18.5%
- Unemployment: 14.6% (8.2–21.3%)
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Zion Baptist Church
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Temple Evangelical Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Patrick's Anglican Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- High On Hope Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Downtown Bethel House of God — 0.2 mi away
- Salvation Army — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Lauchport Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Baptist Temple — 1.3 mi away
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