Lacoma Baptist Church
Lacoma Baptist Church is a Baptist church in WV 24857.
WV, 24857Lacoma 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 — 71,417 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 Lacoma Baptist Church
It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 47.9%
- Child Poverty: 41.5% (24.4–58.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.9%
- Poverty Rate: 34.6% (22.7–46.5%)
- Depression: 34.5%
- Food Insecurity: 30.1%
- Diabetes: 21.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Lacoma Baptist Church
- Toler Church — 1.6 mi away
- Cyclone Church — 1.8 mi away
- Campus Church of God — 2.3 mi away
- Bright Prospect Church — 2.9 mi away
- Oceana United Methodist Church — 4 mi away in Oceana, WV
- Lundale Fwb Church — 4.2 mi away in Lorado, WV
- First Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Oceana, WV
- Oceana Freewill Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in Oceana, WV
- Oceana Church of God — 4.5 mi away in Oceana, WV
- Oceana First Church of God — 4.5 mi away in Oceana, WV
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Oceana, WV
- Oceana Freewill Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in Oceana, WV
- Guyandotte Baptist Church — 7.8 mi away
- Crany Baptist Church — 8 mi away in Oceana, WV
- First Baptist Church — 10.7 mi away in Man, WV