Central Baptist Church
Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Wheeling, WV 26003. It is one of 107 churches in Wheeling, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
Wheeling, WV, 26003Central 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 Central 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 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 45.3%
- Child Poverty: 44.9% (31.7–58.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.0%
- Poverty Rate: 30.6% (19.5–41.7%)
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Depression: 32.0%
- Food Insecurity: 24.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Wheeling city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 339 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church
- Saint Ladislaus Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Third Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Wheeling United Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
- St Pauls Evangelical Church — 0.6 mi away
- South Side Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Prayer Hill Church Of God — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Bellaire, OH
- Pilgrims Rest Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Bellaire, OH
- Agape Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
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