Alexander Baptist Church
Alexander Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3915 Turnpike Road in Portsmouth, VA 23701. It is one of 214 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 41 Baptist congregations in the city.
3915 Turnpike Road, Portsmouth, VA, 23701Shares a ministry location with Forward church and Tidewater Church.
Alexander Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Alexander Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,300 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.
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Obesity: 38.3%
- Depression: 23.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
- Food Insecurity: 19.3%
- Poverty Rate: 16.4% (7.7–25.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.9%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Portsmouth city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 818 residents.
Churches near Alexander Baptist Church
- Forward church — 0 mi away
- Tidewater Church — 0 mi away
- The Birthing Place Worship Center — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Thereses Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Mark Deliverance Center — 0.2 mi away
- Portsmouth Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Guiding Light Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Trinity Church — 0.5 mi away
- Crossroads United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away