Point Pleasant Baptist Church

Point Pleasant Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Philippi, WV 26416. It is one of 44 churches in Philippi, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.

Philippi, WV, 26416

Point Pleasant 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 Point Pleasant Baptist Church

It takes 3.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of adults here carry depression. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

  • Obesity: 43.3%
  • Social Isolation: 34.4%
  • Depression: 31.4%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 23.5% (14.0–33.0%)
  • Diabetes: 16.7%
  • Unemployment: 11.8% (6.1–17.5%)
  • Child Poverty: 24.9% (11.2–39.7%)
  • Food Insecurity: 18.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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