Union Baptist Church
Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 783 Avon Road in Afton, VA 22920. It is one of 13 churches in Afton, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
783 Avon Road, Afton, VA, 22920Phone: (540) 456-6977 · Website: https://www.facebook.com/ubcafton/
Union Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,727 congregations of the Baptist family gather across 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.
Find Union Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Union Baptist Church
It takes 3.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Social Isolation: 29.5%
- Diabetes: 14.0%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Union Baptist Church
- Hebron Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rodes United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Warehouse Church — 1 mi away
- Church of the Blue Ridge — 2.2 mi away
- Greenfield Pentecostal Holiness Church — 2.5 mi away
- Fellowship Holiness Church — 2.5 mi away
- Holy Cross Church — 3.5 mi away
- Lebanon Presbyterian Church — 3.9 mi away
- Mount Woodland Church — 4 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist — 4.6 mi away in Greenwood, VA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Hebron Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist — 4.6 mi away in Greenwood, VA
- Mt Ed Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 6 mi away in Waynesboro, VA
- First Baptist Church — 6.4 mi away in Waynesboro, VA