Agape Baptist Church
Agape Baptist Church is a church in Wheeling, WV 26003. It is one of 107 churches in Wheeling.
Wheeling, WV, 26003Agape 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 Agape Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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 more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 47.5%
- Poverty Rate: 37.8% (25.2–50.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.9%
- Food Insecurity: 28.8%
- Diabetes: 20.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.3%
- Unemployment: 13.4% (3.0–24.3%)
- Social Isolation: 35.3%
- Depression: 31.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 9 census tracts near this church.
Wheeling city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 339 residents.
Churches near Agape Baptist Church
- Living Word — 0.1 mi away
- The Blue Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cathedral of Saint Joseph — 0.1 mi away
- Church God and Saints Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Wayman African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Matthew's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Biggy's Pizza — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Bridgeport, OH
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Martins Ferry, OH
- First Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
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