Gethsemane Baptist Church
Gethsemane Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 5405 Roanoke Avenue in Newport News, VA 23605. It is one of 233 churches in Newport News, and one of 25 Baptist congregations in the city.
5405 Roanoke Avenue, Newport News, VA, 23605Website: https://gethsemanebaptist.org/
Gethsemane Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Gethsemane Baptist Church
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 more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand 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: 48.1%
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Food Insecurity: 31.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.0%
- Diabetes: 17.6%
- Unemployment: 8.1% (0.4–17.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.6%
- Poverty Rate: 20.6% (10.7–30.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Newport News city is served by 83 churches — about one congregation for every 2,230 residents.
Churches near Gethsemane Baptist Church
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Parkview United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Deliverance Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Grafton Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Impacto Celestial — 0.6 mi away
- Walters Temple AME Zion Church — 0.6 mi away
- Full Gospel Deliverance Church — 0.6 mi away
- Parkview Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- United House of Prayer for All People — 0.6 mi away
- Way of the Cross Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away