Birch River Baptist Church
Birch River Baptist Church is a Baptist church in WV 26610.
WV, 26610Birch River 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 Birch River Baptist Church
It takes 5.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 40.2%
- Social Isolation: 33.5%
- Depression: 30.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
- Diabetes: 16.5%
- Unemployment: 11.5% (3.1–20.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 15.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Birch River Baptist Church
- Cox Cemetery Church — 2.2 mi away
- New Hope Church — 2.6 mi away
- Birch River Union Church — 2.7 mi away
- Polemic Run Church — 3.5 mi away in Sutton, WV
- Baughman Church — 3.7 mi away
- Powell Mountain Church — 3.8 mi away
- Big Union Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Mount Olive Church — 5.6 mi away
- Widen Baptist Church — 6 mi away
- Walnut Grove United Methodist Church — 6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Big Union Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Widen Baptist Church — 6 mi away
- Flat Fork Missionary Baptist Church — 9.8 mi away in Clay, WV
- Mount Ovis Primitive Baptist Church — 10.1 mi away in Clay, WV
- Enoch Baptist Church — 10.9 mi away in Clay, WV